Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and index. "This publication is partly based on the symposium 'Point of No Return', Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK), 2019."--Page 287.
Contents:
Point of no return: a polemic? / Ingo Offermanns -- Anti-ambiguity vs. translation: design despite complexity / Ingo Offermanns -- Point of departure, point of no return / Matthias Görlich -- Thinking graphic design / Eva Linhart -- On the encroachment of modernism: class, culture and dolonialsim / Anoushka Khandwala -- What is a true designer? / In-ah Shin (Feminist Designer Social Club) -- Ficticious characters / Sophia Prinz -- Learning to live with complexity: perspectives for the communication society / Annette Geiger -- Not all Africans are criminals, not all Koreans eat kimchi / Karo Akpokiere -- Graphic design is fluid / Markus Weisbeck -- Translocating historic graphic design to encode contemporary curatorial communication / Clémentine Deliss -- A platform for implementing visual language: collaboration with graphic designers in IDEA magazine / Madoka Nishi -- We've never been homogenized / Kay Jun -- To change and not to change: from graphic design to visual communication design / Degeng Li -- Graphic design as a narrative tool / Offshore Studio -- Designing feminist tools / Feminist Internet -- Resistant web / Konrad Renner (Knoth & Renner) -- Always say "graphic design": always type aofhdlkvjblifbv14967cnvlkdfjbh9xiseughcnlkxhgfklxhjfclnskghlakejfh / David Bennewith -- Scripting (of a) statement / Anna Lena von Helldorff -- The varieties of goodness or: how meta-ethicists recognize good graphic design / Christian Bauer -- Aesthetics of graphic design / Daniel Martin Feige -- Graphic design conceives: between individual and collective authorship / Sandra Doeller -- Semantic battles or: why design cannot be innocent / Martin Ludwig Hofmann -- Common-sense design: on the rhetorical limits of what can be designed / Pierre Smolarski -- Graphic design 3-in-1 / Jianping He -- Writing and violence / Friedrich von Borries -- Graphic design after the new normal / Francisco Laranjo.
Summary:
'Graphic Design Is (...) Not Innocent' questions ingrained approaches, values and assumptions of graphic design in globalized societies. The publication aims to initiate a dialogue between designers, scholars, critics and commissioners, who investigate responsibilities, potentials, politics, limits and risks of designing visual communication. How innocent is graphic design? Whom is it addressing, whom is it in/excluding? What does it bring about? When defining the role and impact of visual communication, what future questions lie ahead? 'Graphic Design Is (...) Not Innocent' combines case studies and academic reflections, trying to sketch a common ground for basic research into the parameters and value systems of graphic design. It is a road trip between various possible conceptual challenges and praxis. It is a temporal inventory, without the claim of completeness. It is a question mark, as well as an exclamation mark. And it wants to stimulate critical thinking in graphic design.
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