If one prefers not to copy or plagiarize someone’s else’s concepts or work, still, for the emerged frames of perceptions, which make attempts to freeze the understanding, conclusion or position, one is obliged to learn how to translate the wonders of today into positive realities for tomorrow. About how easy it was for a young […]
In Words
Is “Meta” Better than Reality?
Can Life be Better without Reality?An “off the top” Response Unfortunately, I will always have to start at the beginning: Design has its intellectual roots in science and art and the daily human encounter with nature (and its physical/social environment/ecology). Otherwise, Design is an empty vessel. It has no specific hold on knowledge, because it […]
Kenneth Hiebert
It is my belief that Kenn Hiebert was the true founder of the American design school for Swiss Design in the US, even if he would fight me tooth and nail against this description. But it is my contention, that he was a messenger of a distinct way of evolving visual languages and solutions not […]
Ivan Massar
Real activists live their responsibilities. They don’t talk. They do. I met many important persons at MIT, but none were as significant as Ivan Massar, a Black Star photographer, who collaborated on many of the MIT projects, not just with me, but also with Jackie Casey and Ralph Coburn. From 1945 on, I grew up […]
Fred Brink
Fred studied art history at Middlebury College and photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, and was a professional photographer. A founding principal of Envision Corporation, Fred directed corporate communications media projects for Polaroid, The Boston Globe, Digital Equipment, Sheraton, and many others. Fred helped create Boston’s multimedia presentation bid to host the 1976 […]
On Design Research
By Jorge Frascara and Dietmar R. Winkler From Design Research Quarterly Volume 3, Number 3 July 2008 Design Research Society ISSN 1752-8445 Peter K. Storkerson, Editor Editor’s Introduction: Communication design, generally, is an outlier in the larger field of design, by virtue of its non-participation in empirical research and its lack of interest in […]
Appendixes
At the beginning, they say, the word was birthed. That may be true. But at the end, it says right here, in the mechanics of life, at the end of the book, there fall the appendixes . . . Any encyclopedia will mark “appendix” a collection of supplementary material, usually placed at the end, […]
Papier is geduldig!
Paper is patient! Even though Paper may appear without blemish or crease or without smudge or fingerprint, its only capacity is to live in servitude to the pen and the lucid or confused mind that guides the hand. It endures without anger or upset, while carrying all kinds of messages that vacillate between fact and […]
Visual Culture
Attempts to Streamline World Languages In 1973, Irish (Gaeilge) was accorded “treaty language” status by the European Union with the advantage that the founding treaty was restated in Irish. Irish (Gaeilge) was declared one of the authentic languages with which to correspond with EU institutions. However, despite being the first official language of Ireland, including […]
MIT: Some Notes on the Unwritten History
It is somewhat dumbfounding to realize how some persons rewrite reality, especially in Design History, which in many ways does not really matter. Design would always like to play a bigger role than all the other professions which aid us in making each day. Still, it is quite amusing to see documents full of little […]