“It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last”
—Willie Morris
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Hiroshima Appeals
Graphic artwork from 1983 by Japanese designer and artist Yusaku Kamekura.
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poster I made with Jürg Lehni & Alex Rich’s Empty Words, at Graphic Design: Now in Production
i want to spend a little time thinking about if aspects of design could be “dark” - in such a transaction-based field, what exists beyond the sender, message, and receiver? are there more causes than the ones designers initiate? could perception and some modes of interpretation be considered effects without fully understood causes?
npr:
Dark Matter, Dark Energy And The Shadow Universe
Many folks have heard of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Most folks, however, can’t tell you anything about them. They’re dark. They’re lurking out there. That’s about it.
They’re too important to leave it at that. So, let’s look at the “whys” and “wherefores” of the Dark Duo. With today’s post, I’m going to begin this exploration with a simple fact and its cosmic (literally) interpretation.
Let’s start with a very important distinction. Dark Matter and Dark Energy have nothing (as far as we know) to do with each other. The only thing they have in common is that evocative adjective “dark,” which, for astrophysicists, simply means we can see an effect but we can’t see the cause. -Adam Frank
what is the value in the work that i do, and how can i articulate it? how also can i expand my practice based on an awareness of the value i produce?
questions i need to return to again and again.
this was written almost seven years ago. how far have we come since then? does candy chang, among many others, fall into a similar category as alex rich, jürg lehni, redesigndeutschland, and åbäke? did what was considered briefly as “conceptual design” and “gentle interventions” transform into the recently coined “transformation design”? how does one define and develop the overlaps between reconsidering an idea (creating “a new thought for the object” as duchamp put it) and working with a social conscience?
