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The traditional assumption that schooling is fundamentally tied to the imperatives of citizenship designed to educate students to exercise civic leadership and public service has been eroded. The schools are now the key institution for producing professional, technically trained, credentialized workers for whom the demands of citizenship are subordinated to the vicissitudes of the marketplace…
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Mancuso showed a slide depicting how trees in a forest organize themselves into far-flung networks, using the underground web of mycorrhizal fungi which connects their roots to exchange information. The pattern of nutrient traffic showed how “mother trees” were using the network to nourish shaded seedlings, including their offspring — which the trees can apparently…
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thequietestnoiseonearth: counter/point: The 2013 D-Crit Conference: Andrew Blauvelt, “Graphic Design: Discipline, Medium, Practice, Tool, or Other?” “The field of graphic design seems to be particularly susceptible to existential crises.” (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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fixed the offsetting. it was an “order of operations” (mis)behavior or (mis)interpretation. here are the first three and the final pass. it’s more interesting watching it draw each one in succession that each static “finished” pass or version. here we get to see a hint of a kind of palimpsest effect, the previous drawing influencing…
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thequietestnoiseonearth: A better title for that last post: “Why Every Job is a Graphic Design Job and Why There Are No Jobs in Graphic Design”
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They were trying to teach graphics as epitomised by the recognised practitioners of the time – a Milton Glaser or a Pentagram. But they’d lost grasp of the moment. The agenda was how to find witty visual puns to summarise a situation: a logo for a restaurant could be a bite out of a plate.…
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pizzagang: left: Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915, oil on canvas right: H & R Block logo designed by Landor Associates date unknown
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THESIS-RELATED THOUGHT FRAGMENT
THESIS-RELATED THOUGHT FRAGMENT thequietestnoiseonearth: With the internet, graphic design as a medium is more powerful than it has ever been, but graphic design as a profession is almost obsolete. Because surface now proliferates like a cancer (infinitely faster in fact), it enjoys an unparalleled level of prestige— or is it degradation? Either way,…
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slavin: whatthezeitgeistwants: This is a surveillance photo from Second Life, included in the NSA/GCHQ manual regarding techniques for spying inside virtual worlds. Just when you thought the Snowden revelations couldn’t get any weirdly self-parodic, you learn that American and British spies have created avatars to conduct surveillance of suspicious activity inside World of Warcraft and…
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Something that also taught me how to write that I tell people — I’ve never been a writing teacher, but I say it because it was so helpful to me when I started doing it – is to buy a notebook or a spiral-bound book or something and get a ball-point pen of your choice.…