Month: June 2021
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Under (re)construction
In the process of migrating content from my old CMS. Doing this in the open, don’t shoot me.
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Essential reading
Citizen Designer: Perspectives on design responsibility edited by Steven Heller and Veronique Vienne I often dip back into this anthology when I’m in need of reassurance about the value of […]
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Anti-brand Remover-Installer, a third of a century old
The Beat Kit ‘Remover Installer’ appeared on shelves in 1984. It was a fake product created by Sean Wolfe as a nose-thumb to the then solidifying cult of consumerism. The product itself was a […]
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Light intro to semiotics in visual communication
This is a reflection on an old lecture I delivered, discussing the conventions in signified ‘meaning’ behind visual media, art direction, and communication in general. What do you see? What […]