Richard Hollis has been called "the graphic designer’s designer." Best known as the author of the classicGraphic Design: A Concise History (1994), it is his six decades of design work
that is currently undergoing a long overdue critical reevaluation. InRichard Hollis Designs for the Whitechapel, author Christopher Wilson focuses on the visual identity Hollis
developed during the 1970s and 80s for London’s then up-and-coming Whitechapel Art Gallery. Working closely with curators and artists, Hollis designed a series of conceptually rigorous posters,
brochures, and catalogs for pioneering exhibitions by artists such as Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Cornell, Philip Guston, and Frida Kahlo. This timely collection presents all of
Hollis’s masterpieces of understatement, along with critical essays and interviews.
