Our boy Armin ('sup, Armin) at SpeakUp has a long review of Sex and Typography, the Princeton Architectural Press-published "catalog" (quotes his, but we're agreeing) that accompanies a show that's up at the National Design Museum in London. The review's mostly about how the book divides Brownjohn into Life and Work, whereas it was and is very difficult to separate the two. Apparently the designer had a bit of a drink and drug problem, not that it did anything to make anyone see him with anything but affection. A famous design Brownjohn did was for the cover of the Rolling Stones' album Let it Bleed:

Mostly the point seems to be that Brownjohn was so infatuated/obsessed with design that that was just about what he did. From Armin's review:

Design was his way. Briant Tattersfield, a member of the Graphic Workshop in London recalls Brownjohn coming, in a not-so-perfect state, to give a lecture to some students; after Alan Fletcher shook him out of it and delivered a stunning lecture, a student asked him "What is graphic design?" to which Brownjohn replied "I am."

Yeah.