limited language: rewriting design : responding to a feedback culture

ISBN-13: 9783764389345 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 288 str.

Colin Davies; Monika Parrinder

Opis

Die Website Limited Language gibt der Diskussion um Design eine zeitgemasse Plattform. Jedes Kapitel des Buches limited language: rewriting design enthalt einen Artikel der Website, der mit User-Kommentaren konfrontiert wird, wahrend diverse Farbabbildungen die Artikel/Ruckmeldungs-Konglomerate illustrieren.

Spis treści

LIMITED LANGUAGE: EXPANDED TABLE OF CONTENTS

0 Agenda What is hybrid media?

 

1 Critical Moments: Design in the matrix of visual culture

- Conflicting territory by Limited Language - the end of discipline

- The problem with design / To come 2009 - no more 'solutions'

- Design in crisis by Ezri Tarazi - on capricious aesthetics

- Patronising Prada by Nicky Ryan - on corporate appropriation of the avant-garde

- The Beckhams, UFOS, Conferences & Harringtons by Maziar Raein - illusion of style

- Love/hate by Johnny Hardstaff - on Stockholm Syndrome in graphic authorship

- Brand hijacking by Jonathan Bell - on post-consumers and the battle for authenticity

- Shock and awe by Limited Language - on violence as aesthetic and methodology in design

 

2 Critical Agents? Ethics and the politics of visual culture

- Who are the semionauts? by Limited Language - new configurations of the designer

- The last journalist/ To come 2008 - the designer as editor?

- Design politics by John Russell - on pseudo-activity and the excess of representation

- Illustrators, rather like women in The Bible... by Paul Bowman - on the cross cultural language of image-making

- Street acts by Esther Leslie - on Ben Wilson

- Work ethics by Mario Moura - does design need to get its own house in order first?

- State Britain by Limited Language - a facsimile of protest?

 

3 Tools

- Design and conflict by Limited Language - can vernacular design counter the corporate language of protest?

- Copyleft / To come 2009 - an alternative to copyright?

- Images of images: recording the traces of war by Limited Language - on photographs from the War in Iraq

- Diventity: identity, density and diversity by Ayssar Arida - on a strategy for intuition

- Speech, writing, print... by Michael Clarke - can typographic expression expose media rhetoric?

- Visual communication in 0.4 seconds by Limited Language - on chance operations

 

4 Tactics

- All in the process by Limited Language - on the aesthetics of relational communication

- Open work / To come 2008 - on process and complexity

- Malfunction as the crucial mode of experiment by Markus Miessen - on the value of failure as an alternative to the value of success

- Boredom, b'dum, b'dum by David Crowley - an alternative to the heady stimulation of communication

- What's better than being the best: the new or the necessary? by Laurie Haycock Makela - beyond experiment, to experience

- Slow times... by Limited Language - on the act of design as a counter to the culture of instant response

 

5 Tactics of Space

- Skylines and cityscapes by Limited Language - soundbite cities

- Analogous cities by David Phillips - the image and idea of a city

- Territory (facts on the ground) by Kevin Slavin - writing territory with minds and media [from the starter brief for a Fabric Workshop, May 2008]

- Exposing the line in film by Adam Kossoff - on borders, montage and negative space

- Some thoughts on the 'problem' of flat vector graphics by Julia Moszkowicz - a sense of space in the world of super-flat

- Report from the hawk-eye camera by Tom McCarthy - a cartography of event-space?

- Kodak moments and Nokia digits... by Limited Language - snap-shot travel

 

6 Sensual Aesthetics

- Silence is white, not golden by Limited Language - the relationship between sound, image and design

- Sound in violence / To come 2009

- The extra ear of the other by Joanna Zylinska - on listening to Stelarc

- Earlids and brainlids: on thoughts and sounds by Angus Carlyle - a concentrated listening experiment

- Sensual typography? by Limited Language - Robert Brownjohn, a review

 

7 Digital Aesthetics

- You can have any design as long as its digital by Limited Language - the loss of materiality

- The digital hand / To come 2008

- This page is no longer on this server... by Limited Language - channel zapping and hyper links

- Digital glass by Jon Wozencroft - a digital Arts and Crafts? Wishful thinking...

- After digital... by Limited Language - a digital Arts and Crafts movement

 

8 Critical Underpinnings

- Ticking off the list by Limited Language - on design history, unlisted...

- Radical practice: where do we go from here? To come 2009

- Before a manifesto by Metahaven - can we still write a manifesto from the ideological void?

- Critics don't R.I.P by Catherine Guiral - if we revive the critic, can we revive the culture of design?

- Hybrid writing as critical practice by Limited Language - a poetics of blogging

 

Final Thoughts: Unfinished processes

Bibliography/webography

Index of key ideas

Full reader credits

Image credits

 

 

O autorze

Colin Davies, University of Wolverhampton, UK; Monika Parrinder, Royal College of Art, London.