Reel Around the Fountain
re-pub #02 June 2024 Download re-pub #02 A curated collection of articles on design matters from a ‘design essentialist’ perspective. In...
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Back to the Old House
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum's new permanent exhibition, Glasgow - City of Empire is a shameful piece of Social Justice propaganda...
What Difference Does It Make? (John Peel Session 18/05/83)
A new collection of essays suggests we break out of the narrow version of ethics being foisted upon architects today. Five Critical...
Death of a Disco Dancer (2011 Remaster)
The ‘social purpose’ university - social engineering by another name. Towards the end of last year, the University of the Arts London...
Half a Person
What’s in a name? Having been somewhat press-ganged into design and ‘self-taught’, I rapidly developed imposter syndrome. It took years...
What's the World (Live, Glasgow 1985)
re-pub #o1 - October 2023 Download Re-pub #01 A curated collection of articles on design matters from a ‘design essentialist’...
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Milan Design Week (17 – 23 April), regarded as the world’s most important design fair, has come and gone, but the eco-wailing persists....
The Headmaster Ritual
A new proposal for the Design & Technology GCSE is indoctrination A proposal to revise the Design and Technology (D&T) GCSE curriculum,...
Unloveable
Five Critical Essays on The Crit, Future Cities Project. The link between criticism and the crit is strong. A crit is a developmental...
I Want the One I Can’t Have
The design manifesto is in urgent need of life-saving attention. As we look forward to a better year than the last, we should,...
Still Ill
A Thesis on Communication Design [ 1 ] The old, elite prejudice of the modern era – fear and loathing of the masses – is resurfacing...
Vicar in a Tutu
A gender bias poster campaign that was not all it was cracked-up to be. To coincide with International Women’s Day (IWD) and Women’s...
London
The third London Design Biennale (LDB) runs from 1st – 27th June, hosted at the magnificently imposing Somerset House, on the banks of...
These Things Take Time
Decolonising design: It’s not racism that has led us to celebrate the London tube map or the ‘I “love” New York’ logo. The decolonisation...
You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
Valencia Design Education Forum 2020 This is a short (15 minutes) presentation at the Valencia Design Education Forum on 5 November 2020....
Unloveable (2011, Remaster)
V&A Dundee was a source of civic pride. It’s now being turned into a source of guilt. Dundee, in eastern Scotland, is currently being...
What Difference Does It Make?
First Things First 2020. The fourth & most hysterical iteration of the original yet? During Lockdown, many typo-graphic and communication...
Barbarism Begins at Home
Now even a world-leading association for professional designers is accused of being institutionally racist. We need to get a grip. AIGA,...
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
'Social Design' is not fundamental, it is profoundly anti-design. In graphic design’s relatively short history, profound changes have...
A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours
The Other Side, a new book on design and Brexit, says little of note about either. The Other Side: An Emotional Map of Brexit Britain is...
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