Beyond Hybridity
It took several decades for people to realise the profound impact that the industrial revolution had on art and design. The absorption it created was too heavy and speed rapidly erased the time to...
View ArticleShock(ing)-gun: What is shock(ing) in graphic design?
Presently in graphic design, the taboos, conservatism, revivalisms, clichés and boundaries of the discipline are so blurred and merged that “shock” is either easily absorbed or continuously bounced...
View ArticleSusan Boyle or SuBo?
Speed is not so much a product of our culture as our culture is a product of speed. 1 Everything happened fast. The British TV Show Britain’s Got Talent (BGT) was talked all over the world during the...
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Colourful Disguise – Graphic Design as Tool for Political Analysis
When researching archives of posters from the Portuguese Carnation Revolution, it’s possible to observe the quality of this period’s visual communication. This was done in the context of Experimenta...
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The Fluorescent Society
From across the street, or rather, from the other side of the roundabout, it was impossible not to see the flashy, eye-burning letters in fluorescent yellow. From a distance, it read “summer, summer,...
View ArticleSomething Slash Something
Virgule ( / ) An oblique stroke, used by medieval scribes and many later writers as a form of comma. It is also used to build level fractions, to represent a linebreak when verse is set as prose, and...
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Trendy anarchy or, why just being ‘anti’ is not enough!
Any time the word anti is used in a title of an event, it is bound to prompt ferocious criticism. The word is instantaneously wrapped as anarchistic, counter-culture and looked with suspicion as...
View ArticleThe Whitney Identity: Responding to W(hat)?
Immediately after the release of the new visual identity for the Whitney Museum of American Art, social media rapidly reacted. “Great,” “bold,” “sweet,” “I’m really excited,” “I’m jealous” or simply...
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