Total armageddon
Subtitle: a Slanted reader on design
By: edited by Ian Lynam
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Karlsruhe, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9783981829662
Subjects: Design; Social aspects; Graphic design (Typography); Typografie; Theorie; Soziologie
Description: "This is a book about design. And culture. And complexity, notably how we, as a global civilization, deal with science fiction, taste, social media, the cities we live in, aesthetics, PowerPoint, burkas, authenticity, monuments, HIV, screens, representation, Big Tech, full-contact sports, and other thorny topics. This book is full of essays culled from the first 32 issues of Slanted, the leading international design journal, alongside a number of writings from elsewhere, all specifically chosen for this book. They include essays written by the most vital and vibrant global voices in writing on design and culture today from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East. Writers like Natalia Ilyin, Randy Nakamura, Steven Heller, Piotr Rypson, Silas Munro, Gerry Leonidas, Yoon Soo Lee, Kenneth FitzGerald, Kiyonori Muroga, and a host of others. In a world that feels like it is bursting at the seams due to overpopulation, climate change, economic downturns, strife, selfies, discord, and all-out war, we need somewhere to turn. Our mobile devices tell us that the Apocalypse is just around the corner ... perhaps we just need to look the future in the face by examining the present and all of it's designed faults, fractures, beauties, luminosity, issues, complexities, and cracked screens." --Kickstarter.
Notes: Selected essays from Slanted magazine.
Table of contents: title: An; title: introduction to the end  -- Ian Lynam -- 1.; title: Signs of empire --; title: Acting up at home  -- Silas Munro -- The; title: art of resistance  -- Aleksander Tokarz; title: Give Guantanámo back to Cuba  -- Jonathan M. Hansen; title: Settings, collectivities, infomalities : art and public space in Istanbul  -- Can Altay -- The; title: global style : modernist typography after postmodernism  -- Mr. Keedy; title: Plux Quba : the era of neoliberal design  -- Ian Lynam; title: Reflecting the times  -- Thierry Somers -- 2.; title: Locales --; title: Marrakech : shooting light : Daidō Moriyama  -- Simon Baker; title: Typographic MAD  -- Steven Heller; title: Incunabula : notes on some of the first books printed in the New World  -- Lorena Howard-Sheridan -- The; title: neighborhoods and their personalities  -- Christine Lhowe -- A; title: few (hi)stories about French illustration  -- Ilka Helmig; title: History of the poster in France  -- Amélie Gastaut; title: Boa Esperança!  -- Charlotte von Firtschen & Sonja Steppan -- 3.; title: If I can't dance, it's not my revolution --; title: Ready to luck  -- Laure Boer; title: Female('s)Type : women in the history of graphic design and typography  -- Gerda Breuer & Julia Meer; title: Judgment and beauty  -- Yoon Soo Lee; title: Touching concrete and vinyl  -- Louise Rouse; title: Behind the veil  -- Jori Erdman -- 4.; title: Days of future past --; title: Vintage Portuguese motorcycle graphics : the remains of a lost industry  -- Emanuel Barbosa; title: Making waves : the establishment of Japanese graphic design  -- Ian Lynam; title: Where desert dreams come true  -- Ingo Niermann -- 5.; title: Rebel yell --; title: Voices of Exarchia  -- Panos Papanagiotou; title: Memories of Galérie Épreuve d'Artiste : arts and artists in a decade of war  -- Martin Giesen; title: Kohei Sugiura : pioneer of Asian, design philosophy and methodologies  -- Kiyonori Muroga -- 6.; title: Urban fabric --; title: Learning from Athens : the power of negative thinking  -- Alexander Torell; title: Curtain Mosque : mental structures  -- Marcus Farr; title: Exit signs connecting the labyrinths and the city's past  -- Natassa Pappa; title: Between the devil and the deep sea  -- Matilda Kivelä; title: Aiming for a functional, efficient and desirable place to live - Helsinki as a design city  -- Marianna Kellokoski; title: Pierwsze Pokolenia 1900-1945  -- Piotr Rypson -- The; title: Polish exhibition of graphic symbols  -- Rene Wawrkiewicz -- 7.; title: Words and pictures --; title: Stereo, super quality  -- Olga Drenda; title: Aino Aalto and the birth of Finnish modernism  -- Dermot Mac Cormack; title: Japan-ness in typography : how do you say "typography" in Japanese?  -- Toshiaki Koga; title: Polish battle on poster : Warsaw poster biennale and debates around it  -- Agata Szydłowska; title: Do we need a history of graphic design in Greece?  -- Niki Sioki -- 8.; title: Giving language form --; title: Singing the surface  -- Kenneth FitzGerald -- The; title: Dubai font : a monument for every day  -- Dr. Nadine Chahine; title: Slanted Babylon  -- Gerry Leonidas; title: Form follows architecture : German slap serif typefaces of the early 20th century and their specimen  -- Mathieu Lommen; title: Notes on the meaning of two scripts in Turkey  -- Onur F. Yazıcıgil -- 9.; title: Languages inside of languages -- -- A; title: primer in Greek typography until the digital revolution  -- Georgios Matthiopoulos; title: Mieczysław Berman  -- Piotr Rypson -- The; title: liberation of typography : interview with  -- Wolfgang Weingart; title: Arabic typography as an agent of resistance  -- Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès; title: Typopractica  -- Eran Bacharach; title: Glowing type : explorations in typography, language and light  -- David Peacock; title: Sign on canvas  -- Alexander Negrelli; title: Artistic printing  -- Angela Voulangas & Doug Clouse; title: Typography and architecture  -- Tim Loffing -- 10.; title: End times -- -- The; title: story of the Futhark - 8th century tweets  -- Carolina Laudon; title: Painted words : language and letterform in 20th century visual practice  -- Will Hill; title: Raygun Gothic vs. Memphis : Equilibrium and Sottsass  -- Randy Nakamura; title: Love in ruins  -- Iwona Kurz; title: On shooting butterflies -- Natalia Ilyin.