Diagrammatic Writing

Arts & Photography

Drucker, Johanna

Graphic Design

Set Margins' publications

Who Can Afford to Be Critical?: An Inquiry into What We Can’t Do Alone, as Designers, and into What We Might Be Able to Do Together, as People

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

We Are All ..... Now: Drawing on Strategic Universalism (Set Margins, 4)

Humor & Entertainment

Tucker, Daniel

Pop Culture

An Atlas of Agendas: Mapping the Power, Mapping the Commons

Part design experiment, part critical theory, part how-to manual, What Is Post-Branding? offers a creative counter to branding’s neoliberal orthodoxy 
Brands aren’t just intruding on culture, they are our culture: they are the sponsored mechanisms for constructing and manipulating meaning and human identity. But should we cede such a fundamental human need to the market? If not, why not, and is there an alternative? 
A compact pocketbook composed of four main sections, What Is Post Branding? is a work of "practical theory." The first section, "DIS-BRANDED," consists of 20 short page-long chapters exposing the ideological underbelly and real-world impact of branding. The second, "Mixed Messages," is a provocative visual essay illuminating the texts’ main themes. The third section, "Manual," presents a framework for a critical alternative to corporate branding, humorously appropriating vintage instructional diagrams as a brand manual satire. This section also includes examples of contemporary projects that have implemented post-branding principles. The book concludes with "Context," which features a conversation with cultural theorist Brian Holmes and a discussion with design historian Steven Heller.

What Is Post-Branding?: How to Counter Fundamentalist Marketplace Semiotics

How to write about your work―an expert’s guide to the craft 
Ian Lynam's The Impossibility of Silence is a book for artists, photographers and designers interested in approaching writing about their vocation and culture. Drawing upon decades of experience as a writer, designer, artist and teacher, Lynam offers up a plethora of inspirational and concrete approaches to writing about creative fields. Called "the Hunter S. Thompson of design writing," Lynam uses his industry knowledge to convey his philosophy on writing specifically in a professional creative setting. 
Ian Lynam (born 1972) is faculty and former co-chair at Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA Graphic Design program. He writes for Idea, Slanted and Modes of Criticism, is a cofounder of the online journal Néojaponisme and the associated print journal NJP, runs Wordshape, a hybrid type foundry, and is one-half of Corinthians, a Tokyo-based art and design curatorial practice.

The Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers

Lynam, Ian

History & Criticism

Designers discuss the possibilities of creative coding today 
Through interviews with more than 20 designers, Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age looks at the challenges and opportunities of the fast-changing world of creative coding within a growing community of designers opting to make their own design tools. The designers reflect upon the ways in which coding has transformed their design practice, and the directions it will take in the future. The book is designed entirely by code, featuring digital print on its cut edges and fluorescent colors. 
Designers interviewed include: Dimitri Jeanottat, Ted Davis, Urs Hofer, Jeroen Barendse, Casey Reas, Yehwan Song, Luuse/Marianne Plano + Léonard Mabille, Sarah Garcin, Tancrède Ottiger, Jürg Lehni, Loraine Furter, Raphael Bastide, Petr van Blokland, Dinamo/Fabian Harb + Fabiola Mejía, Johnson/Kingston/Ivan Weiss + Michael Kryenbühl, Eurostandard / Pierrick Brégeon + Ali-Eddine Abdelkhalek, Zach Lieberman, Samuel Weidmann, Erik van Blokland, Studio Dumbar / Sander Sturing and Stan Haanappel, Émilie Pillet and Dia Studio/Mitch Paone.

Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age: A Survey of Practices Fueled by Creative Coding (Set Margins, 15)

Design against Design: Cause and Consequence of a Dissident Graphic Practice

Lo, Kevin Yuen Kit

To Live as an Asian Woman

The Failed Painter: Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety

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