The Daily Gorilla

Graphic Comments on the World News

- a front-page, single column graphic comment panel in the Dutch national newspaper De Volkskrant -

The project is not about branding, selling or winning awards, though it does all those things. But the Gorilla column is genuinely original and unquestionably a design work, a constant element in the daily dialogue between the newspaper and its readers.The past decade has seen much discussion about designers taking charge of content. The daily demands of De Volkskrant have made Gorilla a big project: design that reaches beyond design.

"The Gorilla designers do our culture, and design, a great service.” This is what John L. Walters, editor of Eye Magazine, says about this book in his introduction.

Besides a purely visual overview of the best Gorilla columns this book also organizes the columns under themes with news references, thus setting the stunning visual language of Gorilla in context.

Gorilla has been awarded various prestigious prizes, including the European Design Awards Jury Prize, the Dutch Design Award and the Red Dot Award.

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