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.

Typography and Life: a comparison

 Pages 81- 93

The reading discusses Eric Gill and Jonathan Barnbrook  as designers-as-authors.

Barnbrook's typeface names are hilariously odd; he states " naming a typeface is incredibly important because it is a chance to link the peotry of letterforms with the peotry of abstract shapes with the peotry of language."

This chapter interviewed:

Kenneth Fitzgerald

Anne Burdick

Must know:

Eric Gill

Jonathan Barnbrook

Jan Tschichold

Alexi Brodovitch

Paul Rand

Push Pin Studio

Octavo

Emigre

Ellen Lupton

Stuart Bailey