Graphic Events
Graphic Events Essays and interviews on the precarious life of designed objectsOnce an object of graphic design leaves the designer's computer, it enters an unpredictable and precarious existence in…
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Graphic Events
Essays and interviews on the precarious life of designed objectsOnce an object of graphic design leaves the designer's computer, it enters an unpredictable and precarious existence in the world. This chasm between the conception and the material life of designed objects is familiar and apparent to all, but is curiously under-theorized within the discipline.Graphic Events calls on graphic designers to embrace the uncertainty their designs face as they circulate in the world. Posters, packaging and flyers may be ripped from walls, littered on streets or left to fade in shop windows.
This volume contains interviews with and essays by philosophers, graphic designers, photographers and artists, as well as a poem by It proposes that, rather than ignore the fact or to attempt to "solve" the problem, designers should play with this unpredictable process.