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The designer as Crystal Goblet

The designer as Crystal Goblet

Alda Rosa, Designer

Alda Rosa, Designer

George Lois (1931 – 2022)

George Lois (1931 – 2022)

Mr. Daciano’s new design

Mr. Daciano’s new design

Forget design?

Forget design?

The missing centennial.

The missing centennial.

What about Ukraine?

What about Ukraine?

War pastimes

War pastimes

Graphic Design under sanctions

Graphic Design under sanctions

What Comes After Form? (2)

What Comes After Form? (2)

What Comes After Form?

What Comes After Form?

Design as a morality of form

Design as a morality of form

Form is political

Form is political

Peculiar Photo Books

Peculiar Photo Books

Louise Brooks, 1986

Louise Brooks, 1986

Max Bill’s Form

Max Bill’s Form

Design’s Lock

Design’s Lock

Modern Swiss Architecture – Max Bill

Modern Swiss Architecture – Max Bill

The Designer as Tiger Woods as Joan Didion

The Designer as Tiger Woods as Joan Didion

Loose teeth

Loose teeth

Positive Space

Positive Space

Graphic Design Tropes: Water on Flat Image

Graphic Design Tropes: Water on Flat Image

The Designer as Form, the Designer as Fiction

The Designer as Form, the Designer as Fiction

Paul Rand, the Culture Wars and Feminism

Paul Rand, the Culture Wars and Feminism

Design Over the Phone

Design Over the Phone

Coming soon

Coming soon

The Absence of Objects in Design Criticism

The Absence of Objects in Design Criticism

Arts & Crafts and the Non-human

Arts & Crafts and the Non-human

Arts & Crafts and the Paris Commune

Arts & Crafts and the Paris Commune

The Inner Life of the Space Between Letters

The Inner Life of the Space Between Letters

Those crazy Victorian kids

Those crazy Victorian kids

The Gutter and non-typographical design

The Gutter and non-typographical design

The Violent Childhood of the Pioneers of Modern Design

The Violent Childhood of the Pioneers of Modern Design

1 2 3 4 5 Robert Doisneau

1 2 3 4 5 Robert Doisneau

Children’s photobooks

Children’s photobooks

Walter Crane

Walter Crane

The end of The Believer

The end of The Believer

Image in Spite of It All

Image in Spite of It All

In the beginning…

In the beginning…

A Brief Formalist History of Formalism in Design

A Brief Formalist History of Formalism in Design

Unseen Images

Unseen Images

‘Trendy’ – a critical anatomy of the role of trends in graphic design

Inhuman Trends

Inhuman Trends

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