Remembering Nicholas Thirkell: “he took ideas to their ultimate expression”

The sad news came earlier this week of the death of Nicholas Thirkell, my old business partner, colleague and friend.
I’d known him since the late 1960s, when we were both art directors in the publishing world. I was impressed with what he was doing over at Macmillan, so we met for a drink. Nick (as I always called him) cut a rather dashing figure: he was tall and rather aloof, with a well honed RP accent – think BBC continuity department and you’ll have it.
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