This week we published a piece about Malcolm Grear, and we think it might be the most absorbing thing we have written in a while. Grear arrived at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1960 intending to stay for twelve months. He stayed for thirty-eight years and built what he believed, without false modesty, became the most highly regarded graphic design department in the country.

He brought Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Norman Ives and Dieter Roth into the building. He designed for the Guggenheim Museum for twenty-five years. He negotiated a pay rise for Callahan by marching him into the president's office and announcing that MIT had made an offer. He gave his students assignments designed not to produce portfolios but to produce thought.

And he never, not once in thirty-eight years, stopped believing that graphic design belonged with the arts.

The full piece is here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/first-you-learn-language-can-say-anything-like-malcolm-grear-xhmce/?published=t