Communication Design Department Blog / Glasgow School of Art
This fantastic hybrid-essay (found via manystuff) is both a deft compilation of some interesting ideas and thoughts on copyright, and an intriguing piece of design in its own right. I’ve linked to it previously here, where you can also pick up a few other links and ideas of others etc.
Couple of interesting posts via manystuff.org. Firstly a new exhibition by M/M of Paris, the favoured graphic designers of any altermodernist. Secondly, an intriguing looking publication on ‘Image Aggregation‘. I haven’t read it yet, but it looks interesting, and (i think, probably) ties to an interest in the ‘semantic web‘, ‘aggregation’ (in general) and new approaches to tagging and indexing.
For their August journal Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh curated an online discussion about the impact of the Internet* on visual culture, the online version of which can be accessed here.
* We were getting something proof-read the other day, and apparently the Internet should have a capital ‘I’, like God.
I don’t often write posts about the book and website of the week (see right), but these two are worth a special mention. Uncorporate Identity, if I may be subjective for a moment, is the current book to read about visual language, identity (crisis), urbanism, politics and design – erudite and far-sighted, an awkward and exhilarating ride. DxCrit is a very useful design criticism resource, allied to the design criticism course at SVA in NYC. A video from that below, on failure and design.
Crossing the Line: The 2010 D-Crit Conference: Peter Hall from D-Crit on Vimeo.
This archive contains some interesting talks, such as the one above featuring 5 middle-class white men talking about atemporality, which sort of links to lizzies previous post about power-browsing (i think): from the Video Archive | transmediale.
This post by Michalis Pichler, asks some interesting questions of appropriation. Courtesy of the very nice Donlon Books.
A couple of great links sent over by Sarah Tripp. Firstly the video above which provides some very interesting (and entertaining) ideas to digest. Meanwhile, this article in Frieze magazine looks at relationships between conceptual art and the design of experiences. Though I have some reservations about the connections being made in this article, (and the arguments being drawn from them), both the video and article are interesting at a time when the less informed are throwing the word ‘conceptual’ around with a lack of thought in assessments of various different design courses and degree shows, as the thin end of a thick wedge for needlessly polarising ‘ideas’ from the execution.
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