Do I happen to know anyone with issue 35 of n+1 magazine available?
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Someone really ought to investigate the connection between COVID and critical design practice:
CAPS LOCK (Pater), Not at Your Service (Franke & Matter), Glossary of Undisciplined Design (Stephany & Kaiser), Medium Design (Easterling), Design Struggles (Mareis & Paim. eds), Extra Bold (Lupton & Tobias, eds), just to name a few from 2021. Design after Capitalism (Wizinsky) and What Design Can’t Do (Lorusso) following shortly after.
TypographicaI’ve been wondering who would revive the relatively unknown Stempel typeface, Information (and its predecessor Reform-Grotesk). Fortunately, it is Pierre Pané-Farré and Forgotten Shapes: https://forgotten-shapes.com/information
See also his deep research on the project, including the suggestion that Walter Käch was inspired by Reform: https://forgotten-shapes.com/information?article=reform-grotesk-and-information-2 This would mean the typeface is an unexpected part of Univers’s lineage.
#PierrePaneFarre #ForgottenShapes #InformationTypeface #TypeRevivals #TypeDesign
A race to the bottom that isn’t about decreasing prices: The type industry has for decades had a culture of payed ads masking as editorials. A sure-fire way to undermine your own legitimity. Slanted, Offcuts +++ & the type foundries supporting this practice should be ashamed
This has been a "speculative" sober reading of the first few chapters of Speculative Everything by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby. Now in dire need of a beer, as it seems to be going downhill from here. Lets hope design academics gets its act together.
And ”critical design” is, btw, explicitly not engaging with Critical Theory. Anti-capitalism is a stretch when you are looking for alternatives to capitalism.
Fwiw, Dunne & Raby’s sourcing is the sloppiest I’ve seen: “animals are cloned ... genetically modified ..., human babies are designed to order and bred to provide organs and tissue for their siblings (!), fish and … pigs made to glow in the dark, goats … produce military grade silk …” The footnote sources just one of these: the goat silk.