Our daily debates
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It is 7 weeks before the graduation. A student (Nina 26) has asked 4 other students (Sirkel 23, Claus 33, Noa 31 and Brita 30) to meet her and have a debate about graphic design, their future profession.
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March 2008, New York, Amsterdam, London
Our daily debates
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It is 7 weeks before the graduation. A student (Nina 26) has asked 4 other students (Sirkel 23, Claus 33, Noa 31 and Brita 30) to meet her and have a debate about graphic design, their future profession.
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Can I make everybody happy?
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Nowadays, if we speak about graphic design we can never be sure if we are actually talking about the same thing. The books in this series investigate different fields of graphic design where this lack of definition currently exists, as a means to contribute to the discussion and awareness of an arbitrary profession. This book express the email-exhange between clients(...)
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March 2008, London, Amsterdam, New York
Can I make everybody happy?
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Nowadays, if we speak about graphic design we can never be sure if we are actually talking about the same thing. The books in this series investigate different fields of graphic design where this lack of definition currently exists, as a means to contribute to the discussion and awareness of an arbitrary profession. This book express the email-exhange between clients and designers on ten different projects. All names mentioned are fictional.
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This book is an attempt to tell a story from the closest point of a source. Before it is supposed to be a gossip. Before the juice is added and still is a bit boring and stiff. When looking up at reliable sources like Wikipedia and Google, the word gossip: ''Originates from God-sib, he Godparent of one's child, referring to a relationship of close friendship'' and it(...)
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March 2008, London, Amsterdam, New York
'' I heard they ripped it off ''
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This book is an attempt to tell a story from the closest point of a source. Before it is supposed to be a gossip. Before the juice is added and still is a bit boring and stiff. When looking up at reliable sources like Wikipedia and Google, the word gossip: ''Originates from God-sib, he Godparent of one's child, referring to a relationship of close friendship'' and it is also: '' An event between loose mouthed assholes, that happens as soon as you get into high-school, and follows you all the way to your death bed. It never ends.'' It is also: '' In it's form one of the oldest and most common means of spreading and sharing facts, with a reputation of errors and other variations'' This we of course found highly interesting so we did this book based on that, about the variations of a story when it comes from the same source. To try it out we asked people from the graphics design department in the Rietveld Academy, to re-tell us a story we are supposed to know better than others.
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Talks about money
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What does it mean to do something for free versus asking a lot? How much can we ask? Graphic design does not have any intrinsic value. Money is important, but also not an openly discussed topic. Even though guidelines for charging exist, we often have to negotiate our prices. The texts in this book are based on interviews made in 2006/2007 with freelance graphic(...)
Talks about money
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What does it mean to do something for free versus asking a lot? How much can we ask? Graphic design does not have any intrinsic value. Money is important, but also not an openly discussed topic. Even though guidelines for charging exist, we often have to negotiate our prices. The texts in this book are based on interviews made in 2006/2007 with freelance graphic designers. They range from students and beginners to designers with many years of professional experience, from a one-man ste-up tp a bigger studio with employees. Inside you'll find a wild, wide range of prices, different ways of calculating a price, problems, strategies, principles, numbers and a lot of zeros.
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Tissant des liens féconds entre les mondes de la science et du design, ce catalogue dévoile le travail de designers qui ont, de façon conceptuelle, technique ou poétique, interrogé l'architecture de l'Univers et les lois cachées de la physique qui le régissent, et fait rejaillir les questions fondamentales qui animent artistes et scientifiques (avec une contribution du(...)
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September 2023
Cosmos : Design d'ici et au-delà
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Tissant des liens féconds entre les mondes de la science et du design, ce catalogue dévoile le travail de designers qui ont, de façon conceptuelle, technique ou poétique, interrogé l'architecture de l'Univers et les lois cachées de la physique qui le régissent, et fait rejaillir les questions fondamentales qui animent artistes et scientifiques (avec une contribution du cosmologiste Thomas Hertog).
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Addressing the histories and speculating on the futures of radical design and art education, "Decolonising design education" looks at the role that different institutional modes play in these endeavors. Developed in a dialogue among Regina Bittner, Katja Klaus and Philipp Sack (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation) and JJ Adibrata and farid rakun (Gudskul), the publication features(...)
Decolonising design education: Schools of departure no.1
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Addressing the histories and speculating on the futures of radical design and art education, "Decolonising design education" looks at the role that different institutional modes play in these endeavors. Developed in a dialogue among Regina Bittner, Katja Klaus and Philipp Sack (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation) and JJ Adibrata and farid rakun (Gudskul), the publication features a selection of historical case studies, conversations and in-depth reports about education practices in formerly colonized regions, shared by 10 art and design collectives. The publication is part of the Schools of Departure series, jointly published with a digital atlas mapping experiments in art and design education beyond the Bauhaus. By studying these phenomena as manifestations of "traveling concepts," which keep a wide variety of educational approaches in a process of constant exchange and motion, the publication explores routes of appropriation that move between different geographies, times and cultures.
Design Theory
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This book explores the emergence of the artist and designer profession after the First World War and the further development of this career in close proximity to capitalist industrial production. The book features articles on teaching models pioneered by schools like the Design Laboratory, New York (the first comprehensive school of modernist design in the United States(...)
The new designer: Design as a profession. Schools as departure no.2
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This book explores the emergence of the artist and designer profession after the First World War and the further development of this career in close proximity to capitalist industrial production. The book features articles on teaching models pioneered by schools like the Design Laboratory, New York (the first comprehensive school of modernist design in the United States that was open to general enrollment); the School of Arts and Crafts (Škola umeleckých remesiel), Bratislava; the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm), Germany; and Industrial Design College (Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial), Rio de Janeiro.
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As the design industry reexamines its emphasis on Eurocentric ideologies and wrestles with its conventional practices, ''Centered'' advocates for highlighting and giving a voice to the people, places, methods, ideas, and beliefs that have been eclipsed or excluded by dominant design movements. Curated by Kaleena Sales, a powerful voice and noted advocate for diversity in(...)
Centered: people and ideas diversifying design
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As the design industry reexamines its emphasis on Eurocentric ideologies and wrestles with its conventional practices, ''Centered'' advocates for highlighting and giving a voice to the people, places, methods, ideas, and beliefs that have been eclipsed or excluded by dominant design movements. Curated by Kaleena Sales, a powerful voice and noted advocate for diversity in the design community, the thirteen essays and interviews in this volume feature important and underrepresented design work and projects, both historical and present-day, including: Gee’s Bend Quilters, by Stephen Child and Isabella D’Agnenica; A Chinese Typographic Archive, by YuJune Park and Caspar Lam; Indigenous Sovereignty and Design: An Interview with Sadie Red Wing (Her Shawl is Yellow); The Truck Art of India, by Shantanu Suman; New Lessons from the Bauhaus: An Interview with Ellen Lupton; Vocal Type: An Interview with Tré Seals; Decolonizing Graphic Design, A Must, by Cheryl D. Miller.
Design Theory
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A collection of insights, a series of hypotheses about the transversality and interdisciplinarity that characterize the process of creating design. A succession of micro-narratives that take reality as a source of inspiration. The evolution of materials and techniques, art and design, its authors and their works, aspects of form and type, of history and anthropology,(...)
Just enough: Design microstories
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A collection of insights, a series of hypotheses about the transversality and interdisciplinarity that characterize the process of creating design. A succession of micro-narratives that take reality as a source of inspiration. The evolution of materials and techniques, art and design, its authors and their works, aspects of form and type, of history and anthropology, psychological and social elements, all come together in a succession of consequential and hence inseparable reflections on the '’quantum sufficit'’ to recount the complexity of designing in our times. Text in English and Italian.
Design Theory
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With the increasing amount of issues affecting us as a whole in recent years, such as the global health crises, environmental destruction, and socio-economic disparities, the onus is on each and every one of us to do everything we can for the generations to come. Design has been—and will always be—our crucial tool in this regard. Whether it be through campaigns that(...)
Good by design: Ideas for a better world
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With the increasing amount of issues affecting us as a whole in recent years, such as the global health crises, environmental destruction, and socio-economic disparities, the onus is on each and every one of us to do everything we can for the generations to come. Design has been—and will always be—our crucial tool in this regard. Whether it be through campaigns that rally for action, posters that raise awareness, or products that actually change bad habits, designers combine creativity, craft, and compelling visuals to materialise concepts that can effectively transform the way we live. ''GOOD by DESIGN'' collates the best projects and insights to inspire not only those who wish to do good, but also hope for all in a better tomorrow.
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