Chapter Six: Community Design Authorship

This part discussed design authorship feedback. Designers in general get feedback from the commissioner, but design authorship uses another way for feedback.

It seems that I am starting to get hung up on videos of designers. It feels like a one-sided Skype conference.

This chapter interviewed
Armin Vit:
blog-owner: Speak Up, Quipsologies, & Brand New.
10 Q n A

Michael Longford:
Michael Longford is an Associate Professor and the Associate Chair of the Department of Design at York University in Toronto. He teaches courses in graphic design, digital media, and visual culture in the YSDN undergraduate and MDes graduate programs. He has also organized numerous workshops, artist talks, exhibitions and conferences devoted to design and new media.

ps: I cant help myself from questioning the reasons behind the thank you images in interviews segment!

Chapter 5

page 160-193

researched: 

Doug Powell

Doug Powell is a designer and studio lead at IBM in Austin, Texas where he is helping to build the vision for IBM Design, a global effort to bring design into one of the largest and most successful companies in the world. Prior to joining IBM in 2013, Powell was an independent designer, strategist and entrepreneur leading successful projects for a wide range of clients and collaborative partners in health and nutrition, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, LifeScan and Pepsico. He recently served as consulting creative director for HealthSimple, working in close collaboration with the Johnson & Johnson Global Design team.

Powell is the immediate past national president of AIGA. He has been a leading force in the successful launch of Design for Good, the AIGA initiative to ignite, amplify and accelerate design-driven social change.

A 1988 graduate of the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis, Powell is a lecturer, commentator and thought leader on design issues, having presented at a variety of national conferences and forums including “Bright Ideas” on Minnesota Public Radio, the 2011 Mayo Clinic “Transform” conference and the 2012 TEDx ArtCenter. (http://www.aiga.org/about-board-bios/)


Watch Doug Powell speak in TEDx:
http://youtu.be/B-7y23DQurE

Watch Rick Valicenti speak in TEDx:

http://youtu.be/YLJ1ONtaAGo

Sampling and remixing

 Pages 147-159

•This part discusses the legitimacy of design authorship through sampling, appropriating, parodying, or copying.
•Digital media have erased the distinctions between original and copy.

•William Mitchell's definition of :
-Autographic: artforms that are unique, created in a single instance, and difficult to reproduce without degredation, like a painting.
-Allographic: artforms that are notational and performative, like sheet music or a theatrical script, original both in their conception and in their subsequent performance.

Interviewed:
Warren Lehrer
Johanna Drucker

The Art-Design Zone

page 138-145

"All art is quite useless" -Oscar Wilde

The reading discusses the difference between art and design concerning function. Art has no function, and design is useful. The reading questions  whether design is becoming less useful, a desire over need.
The reading includes Ryan McGinnes and Paula Scher's thoughts on design and art functionality.

Critical Design & Design Fiction

page 124-137

High-lighted:Two primary parallels between critical design and design authorship:1- the act of self-initition (acting without client commissions)2- politicized viewpoints of the designers

"Art is the lie that tells the truth better than the truth" -Chuck Palahniuk

Design Advocacy Across Media

Page 111-123

Design advocacy can mean at least thee things. Designers can advocate 1) a cause, 2) certain people, or 3) the concept of design authorship. This reading explores the first two.

This chapter interviews: Mieke Gerritzen and Noel Douglas

Explore:
thestoryofstuff.org
logorama
No logo: Taking aim at the Brand Bullies, by Naomi Klein
Wordcount.org

Cultural Legitimacy

Pages 95-100

Summary:

• The assumption that design needs a client is a common fallacy.
• Designers themselves evolved into a target market; conferences, competitions, paper specimen brochures, digital fonts, and clip art.