Frederic Jameson - Postmodernism, or, the Cultural logic of Late Capitalism. A 1991 book by jameson offering a critique of modernism and postmodernism from a Marxist point of view.Unable to attain the original hard copy of the book, but this introduction into the first chapter of Frederic Jameson's book is a great insight into late-capitalism and post-modernism . The essence of my essay is to delve into post-modernism as a destination within the timeline of a 'trend', the 'anti-innovators', and the byproducts of capitalism, oversaturation of consumer...
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
Sunday, 29 December 2013
As another visual experiment I felt it would be a good exercise to create a more cohesive compilation of process material used to help with this module this year, I've created a mini publication called "Archive" with a selection of material - essentially filtering through blog posts I have previously posted.It has allowed me to be more selective with what information I put in and to also have more of a designers approach to the information, I used...
Thursday, 12 December 2013
ALTITUDE *CONTEMPORARY SWISSGRAPHIC DESIGN-Robert Klanten, Nicolas Bourquin, Claudia MareisKLANTEN, R, BOURQUIN, N & MAREIS C (2006) 'ALTITUDE: CONTEMPORARY SWISS GRAPHIC DESIGN', BERLIN, DIE GESTALTEN VERLAGThis book was a really useful find, by chance, it's useful because it's a great resource to see modern contemporary Swiss graphic design and see whether in a globalised world - the influence and teachings of classical Swiss graphic design...
> THE ANATOMY OF TRENDThe> THE TREND FORECASTER'S TOOLKITTrend> INTUITIVE FORECASTINGForecaster's> NETWORK FORECASTINGHandbook> CULTURAL TRIANGULATIONMartin Raymond> SCENARIO PLANNINGMARTIN, R (2010) 'THE TREND FORECASTER'S HANDBOOK', LONDON, LAURENCE KING PUBLISHING LTDSome notes from The Trend Forecaster's Handbook by Martin Raymond, a pretty specialist book regarding how to be a good trend forecaster - not fully related to my...
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
OPEN WORLDTHE TRUTH ABOUTGLOBALISATION-PHILLIPE LEGRAINLEGRAIN, P (2003) 'OPEN WORLD: THE TRUTH ABOUT GLOBALISATION', LONDON, ABACUSRecently read through Phillipe Legrain's book - Open World :The Truth About Globalisation. Hugely informative without being intimidating. It's reaffirmed some of my presumptions such as the widespread reach of 'English' as a language and many other keypoints but at the same time it's almost made me question the term...
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