Robert Brownjohn - a review
The current show, Robert Brownjohn, at the Design Museum London, provides a retrospective of graphic designer Brownjohn whose career maps out a visual terrain of the 1960s and its relationship to graphic communication. His work can be seen to act as a bridge between the dry, crisp corporate world of urban America and bubbly 60s London. In a sense the show tries to carve out two narratives; graphic design as a rigorous discipline which warrants closer inspection and Brownjohn, the practitioner and troubled Genius of Graphic Design. The former is warranted but the latter deification can detract from the show as whole.