limited language: rewriting design de Colin Davies

limited language: rewriting design: responding to a feedback culture

Colin Davies

Monika Parrinder

"Limited Language" is a web-platform for generating writing and discussion about the design process. Each of the sub-sections of the book "limited language : rewriting design" comprises an article from the website, followed by a reflection/response to the topic by the responses raised on limitedlanguage.org.

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"Limited Language" is a web-platform, co-founded in 2005 by Colin Davies (University of Wolverhampton) and Monika Parrinder (Royal College of Art, London), for generating writing and discussion about the design process. Over the last four years the site has collected a series of essays and commentary dealing with the key issues which effect and shape visual communication today. "limited language: rewriting design", examines the relationship between traditional printed formats (the book) and new digital ones (blogging). Hybrid media forms are already transforming design. How might they be used to rethink design writing? "limited language: rewriting design" creates an alternative and innovative "writing space" – the reflection and distance which can be offered only by a book. Each of its sub-sections comprises an article from the website, followed by a reflection/response to the topic by the responses raised on limitedlanguage.org, while rich visual imagery in colour illustrates each article/response.
"This is a rare book about design that embraces ideas with as much enthusiasm as objects. It illustrates its premise by showing feedback culture in action. If you find yourself wanting to join in the dialogue with thoughts of your own – and you will – their website is ready and waiting." – Rick Poynor
www.limitedlanguage.org

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LIMITED LANGUAGE: EXPANDED TABLE OF CONTENTS 0 Agenda What is hybrid media? 1 Critical Moments: Design in the matrix of visual culture • Conflicting territory by Limited Language – the end of discipline • The problem with design / To come 2009 – no more ‘solutions’ • Design in crisis by Ezri Tarazi – on capricious aesthetics • Patronising Prada by Nicky Ryan – on corporate appropriation of the avant-garde • The Beckhams, UFOS, Conferences & Harringtons by Maziar Raein – illusion of style • Love/hate by Johnny Hardstaff – on Stockholm Syndrome in graphic authorship • Brand hijacking by Jonathan Bell – on post-consumers and the battle for authenticity • Shock and awe by Limited Language – on violence as aesthetic and methodology in design 2 Critical Agents? Ethics and the politics of visual culture • Who are the semionauts? by Limited Language – new configurations of the designer • The last journalist/ To come 2008 - the designer as editor? • Design politics by John Russell – on pseudo-activity and the excess of representation • Illustrators, rather like women in The Bible… by Paul Bowman – on the cross cultural language of image-making • Street acts by Esther Leslie – on Ben Wilson • Work ethics by Mario Moura - does design need to get its own house in order first? • State Britain by Limited Language - a facsimile of protest? 3 Tools • Design and conflict by Limited Language - can vernacular design counter the corporate language of protest? • Copyleft / To come 2009 – an alternative tocopyright? • Images of images: recording the traces of war by Limited Language - on photographs from the War in Iraq • Diventity: identity, density and diversity by Ayssar Arida – on a strategy for intuition • Speech, writing, print… by Michael Clarke - can typographic expression expose media rhetoric? • Visual communication in 0.4 seconds by Limited Language – on chance operations 4 Tactics • All in the process by Limited Language – on the aesthetics of relational communication • Open work / To come 2008 – on process and complexity • Malfunction as the crucial mode of experiment by Markus Miessen – on the value of failure as an alternative to the value of success • Boredom, b’dum, b’dum by David Crowley - an alternative to the heady stimulation of communication • What’s better than being the best: the new or the necessary? by Laurie Haycock Makela - beyond experiment, to experience • Slow times… by Limited Language – on the act of design as a counter to the culture of instant response 5 Tactics of Space • Skylines and cityscapes by Limited Language - soundbite cities • Analogous cities by David Phillips - the image and idea of a city • Territory (facts on the ground) by Kevin Slavin – writing territory with minds and media [from the starter brief for a Fabric Workshop, May 2008] • Exposing the line in film by Adam Kossoff – on borders, montage and negative space • Some thoughts on the ‘problem’ of flat vector graphics by Julia Moszkowicz - a sense of space in the world of super-flat • Report from the hawk-eye camera by Tom McCarthy – a cartography of

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