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.
Design Theory
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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Wouldn't It be nice
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« Wouldnt it be nice... » explore les processus intellectuels et les méthodes de travail qui aboutissent à diverses attitudes et pratiques créatives, oscillant entre divers champs de tension. D`une part, la dichotomie entre activisme et résignation, ainsi que entre préoccupations sociales et contôle social. Dautre part, l`écart entre les grands projets et les dures(...)
Wouldn't It be nice
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« Wouldnt it be nice... » explore les processus intellectuels et les méthodes de travail qui aboutissent à diverses attitudes et pratiques créatives, oscillant entre divers champs de tension. D`une part, la dichotomie entre activisme et résignation, ainsi que entre préoccupations sociales et contôle social. Dautre part, l`écart entre les grands projets et les dures réalités, lopposition entre esprit de conciliation et esprit de confrontation.
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Pre-Specifics
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The demand for design competence crosses almost all disciplinary boundaries, making the designers of today particularly ubiquitous in their influence. Pre-Specifics argues that the most promising strategies for the design disciplines of tomorrow can be forecast in the common codes of "virtual relations" shared by material, biological, technological, cognitive and media(...)
Pre-Specifics
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The demand for design competence crosses almost all disciplinary boundaries, making the designers of today particularly ubiquitous in their influence. Pre-Specifics argues that the most promising strategies for the design disciplines of tomorrow can be forecast in the common codes of "virtual relations" shared by material, biological, technological, cognitive and media perspectives. The book features contributions, statements, and conversations with internationally renowned authors such as Greg Lynn, Christopher Peterka, Wolfgang Weingart, Marcel Alexander Niggli, Christian Labonte, Fiona Raby and Anthony Dunne, Christian Doelker, Philipp Sarasin, Raymond Guidot, Eric Zimmerman and Manfred Fassler among others. It is designed by Ludovic Balland, and published with the Institute for Research in Art and Design HGK FHNW in Basel.
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The little know it all
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What is a Meta-Tag? What kind of measurement is DIN A1? What kind of clearance and documents do you need before using copyrighted material? An interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of design is practically requisite these days with the integration and crossover of evolving media. This book is divided into sections explicating unique vocabulary used in(...)
Design Theory
October 2007, Berlin
The little know it all
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What is a Meta-Tag? What kind of measurement is DIN A1? What kind of clearance and documents do you need before using copyrighted material? An interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of design is practically requisite these days with the integration and crossover of evolving media. This book is divided into sections explicating unique vocabulary used in design, printing, typography and photography and includes helpful tips and concise analysis in contiguous areas such as advertising, mulimedia, business, copyright and project management. It is structured thematically and equipped with a resourceful index that references numerous sources and links. This indispensable manual is complete with graphics that illustrate and supplement the texts, making it a stimulating reference book for students and newcomers while serving as a trusty companion for professional designers and media professionals alike in their everyday work.
Design Theory
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Expliquer le design, son histoire et ses recherches les plus contemporaines, en étudiant ses techniques de conception, de fabrication et de réalisation ainsi que les matériaux traditionnels et innovants utilisés: tel est l'objet de cet ouvrage. Sous la direction de Raymond Guidot, porte-parole reconnu du design, quatre textes, illustrés de nombreuses vues d'ateliers et(...)
Design Theory
November 2005, Paris
Design : techniques et matériaux
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Expliquer le design, son histoire et ses recherches les plus contemporaines, en étudiant ses techniques de conception, de fabrication et de réalisation ainsi que les matériaux traditionnels et innovants utilisés: tel est l'objet de cet ouvrage. Sous la direction de Raymond Guidot, porte-parole reconnu du design, quatre textes, illustrés de nombreuses vues d'ateliers et d'usines, de documents préparatoires et didactiques, d'objets finis, abordent, à l'intention du grand public comme des spécialistes, de quelle manière concevoir et fabriquer le beau et l'utile, explicitent les enjeux technologiques de cette discipline.
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We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, “In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World”. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centred on technology,(...)
In the bubble : designing in a complex world
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We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, “In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World”. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centred on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives. Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we're unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how? ”In the Bubble” is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now -- not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology -- ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centred world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles -- above all, lightness -- inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.
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April 2005, London
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This book reconstructs the series of exercises that led Kostellow's students from the manipulation of simple forms to the creation of complex solutions to difficult design problems. It includes her exercises and commentary along with selected student solutions, and concludes with examples of work from former students who became leaders in the field, including such(...)
Elements of design : Rowena Reed Kostellow and the structure of visual relationships
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This book reconstructs the series of exercises that led Kostellow's students from the manipulation of simple forms to the creation of complex solutions to difficult design problems. It includes her exercises and commentary along with selected student solutions, and concludes with examples of work from former students who became leaders in the field, including such well-known figures as Tucker Viemeisater, Ralph Applebaum, Ted Muehling, and many others.
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