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Back in a new compact edition, this field guide to our new world of hybrid specimens--gorgeously printed in silver ink on black paper--catalogs the conflation of the technosphere and the biospherePlastiglomerates, surveillance robot dogs, fordite, artificial grass, antenna trees, Covid, decapitated mountains, drone-fighting eagles, standardized bananas: all of these specimens--some more familiar than others--are examples of the hybridity that shapes the current landscapes of science, technology and everyday life. Inspired by medieval bestiaries and the increasingly visible effects of climate change on the planet, French researcher Nicolas Nova and art collective DISNOVATION.ORG provide an ethnographic guide to the "post-natural" era in which we live, highlighting the amalgamations of nature and artifice that already coexist in the 21st century.A sort of field handbook, A Bestiary of the Anthropocene aims to help us orient ourselves within the technosphere and the biosphere. What happens when technologies and their unintended consequences become so ubiquitous that it is difficult to define what is "natural" or not? What does it mean to live in a hybrid environment made of organic and synthetic matter? In order to answer such questions, Nova and DISNOVATION.ORG bring their own research together with contributions from collectives such as the Center for Genomic Gastronomy and Aliens in Green as well as text by scholars and researchers from around the world. Polish graphic designer Maria Roszkowska provides illustrations.

A poetical list of essential knowledge for designers that both politicizes and inspiresIn 2018, the architect and activist Michael Sorkin published the now beloved essay-list "Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Know." Struck by the compelling form of this text, Danah Abdulla compiled a version for designers--"a list based on a search for knowledge and a designer's commitment to making the world a better place," as she writes. Abdulla's list includes the experience of scents; how critical theory does not account for the colonial experience; the dangers of seeking out simplicity; visual pollution; and how certain emblems and symbols make people feel. It is meant to be approached as a series of prompts to consider, discard or spark a conversation.Danah Abdulla (born 1986) is a Palestinian Canadian designer, educator and researcher. She is Program Director of Graphic Design at Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts, and a founding member of the Decolonising Design platform.

The need-to-know names of Japanese graphic design from the late 19th century to the pre-digital decade, presented alongside more than 500 color images of vintage ephemeraWith Fracture, author Ian Lynam presents a survey of Japanese design across a century as told through the biographies of its most influential creators. The chronology begins less than two decades after Japan's opening to the West, ending a 200-year isolationist policy. Lynam features the stories of more than 90 pacesetters shaping the country's modern aesthetic. We meet Hani Motoko, considered Japan's first female journalist, who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build the "Hall for Tomorrow" schoolhouse in Toshima City, Tokyo. Amid the national propaganda of the interwar period, a vision of the modern Japanese woman emerges in the advertisements of Hisui Sugiura and Tada Hokuu. The 1964 Olympics marked a watershed moment for Japanese design on the international stage, with Yusaku Kamehura's "red circle" logo and the design of pictograms used in the competition for the first time. Finally, the survey concludes with the rise of women's liberation or ribu, and the state of graphic design at the threshold of the digital age.Illustrated with children's book pages, travel posters, maps, product advertisements, erotic magazine covers and more, Fracture functions as a visual treasure trove of Japanese ephemera while also introducing readers to the creative minds behind these formative designs.Ian Lynam (born 1972) holds an MFA in graphic design from California Institute of the Arts. He is a faculty member at Temple University Japan Campus as well as at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His previous books on design include War with Myself, The Failed Painter and The Impossibility of Silence.

Cynical flowcharts and simple instructions make for a tongue-in-cheek guide to tax evasionThe Algoffshore series of flowcharts by artist collective Rybn.org presents five ready-to-use strategies for corporations to evade taxes and other social or environmental obligations. At the same time, these cynical diagrams document how contemporary financial engineering allows multinationals and enterprises to optimize profits and maximize anonymity.

A wide-ranging and incisive look at the various issues of volume in designA revised and expanded edition of the original 2010 book by Kenneth FitzGerald, Volumes: Design Reviewed Remixed Revealed, explores the dynamics of volume in graphic design, from vernacular expressions to professional practice, featured in critical essays, reviews, speculations, polemics, incitements and fictions. The diverse topics of the writings include the roles of class in design, progressive political speech as "mother" of graphic design, design as entertainment, typography as spur, the branding of the Beatles' Apple Records, pornography, album cover art, imaginary creative identities and more. Volumes also includes an introductory essay by the cofounder of Emigre Inc., Rudy VanderLans.Kenneth FitzGerald (born 1960) is an educator, designer, curator and artist. He is currently Professor of Design at Old Dominion University.

Artists meditate on the earthly phenomenon of vibrational fields in the Pacific regionThis catalog is produced to accompany the exhibition Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific, co-organized by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University. The project invites artists, scientists, composers and cultural historians to explore vibration as a scientific phenomenon as well as a conduit for sensory experience and ways of knowing. Vibrations and their resulting waves shape our planet in myriad ways. But vibrations are also fundamental to human perception and consciousness, allowing us to register sound, light, color and movement. Energy Fields considers the Pacific Rim, home to the earth's most seismically active continental plates, as a zone where different vibrations of different types powerfully intersect, informing our understanding of the world as well as shaping unique cultural practices.Artists include: David Haines, Joyce Hinterding, Steve Roden, Malena Szlam, Alba Triana, Virginia Katz.

Despite societal pressures to produce tangible results during artist residencies, Configurations of Time values process in its own rightFor artists who have done a residency, are preparing for one, or for those just interested in creative processes and how artists work within theories of time, Configurations of Time offers a way to rethink the concept of time within the setting of an artist residency. With a decade of experience in various artist residency programs, Angela Serino explores what is put into motion by the experience of being "in residence" that is not immediately visible or quantifiable. Finding inspiration from a wide range of artists' works and conceptualizations of time in science and cultural theory, Serino looks at how time is spent in residencies through the different and overlapping concepts of space time, care time and soil time.Angela Serino is a curator and researcher based in Amsterdam. In 2020, she cofounded the Art Residency Research Collective (ARRC), which aims to study the shifting practices of art residencies through a hybrid residency format.

A manual for ethically and effectively incorporating AI into graphic design, complemented by conversations with the world's leading design firmsUsing the voice of AI in the persona of "Steve," this book grows out of Melani De Luca's PhD research. Featuring testimonies from other graphic designers, the book offers practical support and a conceptual framework for incorporating AI and machine learning into the field. This book is the first to elaborately map out what AI brings to graphic design and to identity design in particular. The graphic field, and designers at large are seeking out for practical grip, ethical frameworks and more. This book offers this support.

Empathetic approaches to creating sustainable, sympathetic cultural productionIn this collection of essays and musings, Freek Lomme shares his collected and sometimes contradictory experiences of striving for independent, progressive and sustainable creative production. Using a grassroots approach based on activist engagement, entrepreneurship, design pedagogy and more, Lomme offers multiple perspectives on how to maintain a liberal mindset in an era of burgeoning neo-conservatism. Discussing everything from punk rock to the "silent majority," he contextualizes the facade of technocratic capitalism as built by politics, marketing and the invisible hand of the oligarchy. Care Where No One Does sparks a different kind of production economy: one based on trust and engagement wherever possible. Freek Lomme, founder and owner of Set Margins' publications, is an editor, publisher, producer, graphic designer, writer and lecturer. Lomme is best known for founding Onomatopee with graphic designer Remco van Bladel in 2006.

On graphic design's complicity in power and what can be done to transform the fieldMoving beyond the usual forms endemic to the graphic design canon, Designing History studies bureaucratic instruments such as money, passports, certificates, property deeds and more. Such documents produce identity, assign ownership and ascribe value. They stabilize claims, memory and knowledge that would otherwise be vulnerable to contestation or obliteration. Despite their apparent banality, such documents are perhaps graphic design's most profoundly consequential forms. This book is the revised edition of Immutable: Designing History (2022). It includes an extended essay that contextualizes the project as one concerned primarily with prompting a remapping of graphic design's historical and practical assumptions.Chris Lee is a graphic designer and educator based in Brooklyn. His practice explores graphic design's entanglement with capitalism and colonialism through the genre of the document. He is Assistant Professor in the Undergraduate Communications Design Department at Pratt Institute.

A practical guide to building your own design and branding firm, as told by a leading figure in the fieldPart personal memoir and part professional manual by designer and creative strategist Matt Owens, A Visible Distance addresses the common challenges faced when building a practice in graphic design or branding. The book provides concrete strategies to tackle the complexities of balancing intuition and taste, technical and personal capability, strategic business decisions in design work and the demands of modern brand building. The book spans the last several decades: from Owens' roots in DIY, punk and skateboarding in the later '80s, to the advent of the commercialization of the internet in the late 1990s, building and growing a creative agency, to the present disruption of artificial intelligence, automation and distributed hybrid teams. A Visible Distance is a testimony to learning new things and embracing fundamental changes in popular culture, tools, technologies and processes to make your own way in design.Matt Owens was born and raised in Texas. He is the founder of multiple design studios and creative agencies including One9ine and Athletics, where he has worked with clients including Sony, Nike, Madlib, Cooper Hewitt, IBM, Google and others. He is currently based in Brooklyn.

A wide-ranging collection of essays spanning design, decolonization and historyHot on the heels of his books The Impossibility of Silence and The Failed Painter, designer, writer and teacher Ian Lynam's latest body of work is an urgent and impassioned examination of the contemporary condition. War with Myself is a wide-ranging collection of essays spanning design, authenticity, empire, decolonization and history.Originally hailing from New York, Ian Lynam holds a BS in graphic design from Portland State University and an MFA in graphic design from CalArts. He is faculty and former cochair at Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA Graphic Design program. Lynam is a cofounder of the critical cultural online journal Néojaponisme and the associated print journal NJP. He is a Mead Show winner and a two-time winner of both the STA 100 and the Asian Pacific Design Awards.

Through onsite interventions, Giannotti challenges the existing order of public art institutionsResponding to the museum status quo, Aldo Giannotti's concepts and props reshape the institution's social and spatial architecture. Through dialogue with staff, guards and visitors, Giannotti engages with the museum and its underlying purpose.

A lovingly designed and scrupulously researched social history of the traditional Romanian blouseMade by generations of women, the folk garment of the Romanian blouse secured its language despite eons of fierce changes. Author Simona Bortis-Schultz creates a cultural-historical biography of the blouse, from Neolithic beginnings in northeastern Romania and western Ukraine, through the period of folk revival, the Communist era and the post-Communist emigration out of the region. Design, location, colors and their semiotic significance relay the elements of a deliberate communication carried forth by women through enduring craft from prehistory to today. The Romanian proverb "to hold your heart in your teeth" means to move forward bravely despite fear. The book is an homage to generations of resilient women: honoring the design qualities of this feminine fortitude and the garment they made to survive.Simona Bortis-Schultz is a New York-based illustrator, designer and educator. She is currently on faculty at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.

A witty, tongue-in-cheek discussion of design's potentials and pitfallsIn focusing on creating preferable conditions, the discipline of design is optimistic by default. And yet, vernacular manifestations of skepticism, dissatisfaction and even resentment toward design abound. Instead of systematically discarding them, can these "sad passions" shed a valuable light on the blind spots of the field? Can disillusion be something more than disillusionment? Can it become an emotional method to unveil design's dysfunctions and contradictions?Author Silvio Lorusso looks into historical and present manifestations of design disillusion to shorten the gap between expectations and reality when it comes to the everyday practice of designers. Using humorous and irreverent visuals, often containing jokes about design, Lorusso constructs thoughtful dichotomies on such topics as synthesis and autonomy, power and impotence, and aspirations and compromise. The result is an amusing yet academic consideration of the design profession and its future.Silvio Lorusso (born 1985) is the author of Entreprecariat: Everyone Is an Entrepreneur. Nobody Is Safe. He holds a PhD in Design Sciences from the Iuav University of Venice, and is an assistant professor and vice-director of the Center for Other Worlds at the Lusófona University in Lisbon.