Through A Glass Darkly
A collaborative publication produced as part of Documentation Studio on the M.Des program at University of Illinois at Chicago. The publication documents a lecture series organized at UIC. We transcribed the lectures from the speakers Mark Owens, Till Wittwer, The Rodina and Andrew Blauvelt and created four booklets, one for each speaker. The cover of each booklet consists of a collage of the work of graduate students at UIC. The packet also contains an interview with UIC faculty and type designer Pouya Ahmadi who conceptualised the lecture series.
Instructor: Andrew Lister
Contents: Four Booklets, Bookmark/Colophon, Interview insert.
Size: 11.7”x16.5” (vertical)
Instructor: Andrew Lister
Contents: Four Booklets, Bookmark/Colophon, Interview insert.
Size: 11.7”x16.5” (vertical)
This series of seminars aims to investigate the parameters of design as a practice. Rather than showcasing “best practices”—optimal ways for designers to take on predetermined roles—it looks at alternative models for the profession in which designers develop their own agendas and territories.
TAGD questions notions of design practice today by considering alternative agendas for design. It showcases practices that go beyond surface, image, and form and utilize design as a tool capable of generating references and agendas outside predetermined boundaries. It introduces designers that elevate design discourse by repurposing design in the form of writing, producing, and publishing. It brings together designers who reject the status quo and seek to create their own alternative realities; designers who endeavor to remain relevant by redefining their practice and adopting positions outside traditionally defined domains.
