- Feb 2024
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openlab.citytech.cuny.edu openlab.citytech.cuny.edu
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Graphic designers produce representations of society, and they help create access to information and ideas. But who gets to be represented, and who gets access?
Beyond this question lies another to me. Who is art for? Do artists/graphic designers have a greater responsibility to the people that engage with their art?
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Graphic designers produce representations of society, and they help create access to information and ideas. But who gets to be represented, and who gets access?
It is essential to question what we see as authority just because it looks official. The internet has opened information and platform access to many more people. What that looks like in the future is literally up to us. We can have a great effect as visual artists and strategic thinkers on how culture grows. What will "inclusive" mean 20 years from now. Will we still be fighting the same fights?
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designopendata.wordpress.com designopendata.wordpress.com
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mid-twentieth century, Josef Müller-Brockmann and Paul Randconnected design methodologies to the world of business
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Müller-Brockmann
Josef Müller-Brockmann father of the International Typographic Style and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rand
Paul Rand, who made big scary computers warm and fuzzy
https://www.ibm.com/design/language/ibm-logos/rebus/
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/paul-rand-ibm-think-magazine-eye-bee-m-rebus-cover-1
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El Lissitzky, whose posters, books, and exhibitions are amongthe most influential works of twentieth-century design, had a huge impact
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scholar and designer Helen Armstrong,
She was "emerging" in 2006 when this was written, nearly 20 years ago. She's still a working professor with interesting projects.
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- Feb 2022
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designopendata.wordpress.com designopendata.wordpress.com
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Digital technology puts creation, production, and distribution into the hands of the designer, enabling such bold assertions of artistic presence. These acts of graphic authorship fit within a broader evolving model of collective author-ship that is fundamentally changing the producer-consumer relationship.
What role does technology play in shaping design?
Because of the technological advances that we have made, technology has helped designers to re-imagine the impossible.
Technology has helped us to create the impossible.
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Today some graphic designers continue to champion ideals of neutrality and objectivity that were essential to the early formation of their field. Such designers see the client’s message as the central component of their work. They strive to communicate this message clearly, although now their post-postmodern eyes are open to the impossibility of neutrality and objectivity.
What distinguishes the field, or fields, of design from other creative occupations?
I think that creativity is key for distinguishing the difference between design and other occupation.
As a designer you have to be neutral and creative in getting your clients message across.
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Looking back across the history of design through the minds of these influential designers, one can identify pervasive themes like those discussed in this introduction. Issues like authorship, universality, and social responsi-bility, so key to avant-garde ideology, remain crucial to contemporary critical and theoretical discussions of the field.
According to this author, what role should design play in society?
I think that the author was talking about how the design community should be the new avant-garde.
I think that designers should be at the forefront of the design community.
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