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Category Archives: Critical Design

All Possible Futures

All Possible Futures SOMArts, San Francisco January 14 – February 13, 2014 Curator: Jon Sueda Statement: «Speculative practices have existed throughout the history of design, most notably in architecture, but only a few graphic designers have positioned themselves in contexts where they are able to pursue explorations built on speculation and uncertain ground. This could […]

The Center for Sensibility
Thesis project

The Center for Sensibility (Thesis project) A project by communication design grad student Amanda Thomas February 11-15, 2013 Discussion of the project: published on September 20, 2013, http://blogs.walkerart.org Statement: (excerpt) «The Center for Sensibility, my thesis project, antagonized the practice of design and sought ways to productively work against prescribed notions of design practice. Inspired […]

RISD MFA Graphic Design exhibition 2013

Rhode Island School of Design MFA Graphic Design exhibition 2013 RI Convention Center, Providence May 17 – June 1, 2013 Statement: «Graphic Design as product and process occupies territories of the studio, the gallery, and the marketplace. Our exhibition demonstrates design’s hybrid character, functionally linked to commerce while producing expressions of cultural and aesthetic value. […]

Permanent Loan

Permanent Loan part of the After the Museum: The Home Front 2013 exhibition Museum of Art and Design, New York March 12 – June 9, 2013 Designers of the installation: Project Projects Statement: «Project Projects was invited by guest curator Dan Rubinstein and manager of public programs Jake Yuzna to create an installation at the […]

Metahaven: Islands in the Cloud

Metahaven: Islands in the Cloud MoMA PS1, New York January 20 – April 1, 2013 Statement: «Founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden in 2007 as a design and research studio, Metahaven has come to define a new methodology in graphic design. The studio’s speculative practice privileges the vocabulary of graphic design as […]

Graphic Advocacy:
International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012

Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012 first held on January 15 – March 2, 2013 Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, Massachusetts (now traveling: see the schedule) Statement: «As a medium for social change, posters record our struggles for peace, social justice, environmental defense, and liberation from […]

Zak Kyes Working With…
Chicago

Zak Kyes Working With… from Graham Foundation on Vimeo. Zak Kyes Working With… Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, June 14 – September 23, 2012 See the older post about Zak Kyes Working With… in Leipzig and in London.

Zak Kyes Working With…
London

Zak Kyes Working With… Architectural Association, London, April 28 – May 26, 2012 See the older post about Zak Kyes Working With… in Leipzig.

Graphic design stopped looking like graphic design…

“A Report from the Place Formerly Known as Graphic Design” is the title of an article by graphic design critic Rick Poynor featured in September 2011 issue of Print magazine. Worth reading. Invited to participate in the final grad show at the Sandberg Institute’s MFA design course, directed by Annelys de Vet, and spurred by […]

RISD MFA Graphic Design exhibition 2011

Rhode Island School of Design MFA Graphic Design exhibition 2011 RI Convention Center, Providence May 10 – June 4, 2011 Statement: «The 2011 RISD Graphic Design MFA Thesis Show is a group exhibition of selected thesis work from the RISD Graphic Design MFA Class of 2011. The show is published in a catalogue which will […]