IT IS A BUILDING: Process & the Pain of Progress
April 2006
print, solo work
8.6” x 11.75”, hard cover
As posthuman theory becomes more than fantastical interpretations of our social, cultural and physical selves, graphic design has the opportunity to participate in the redefinition of the body and space relationship. As our physical apparatus’ synthesize with our technological ones, it is possible for graphic design to not only illustrate this fusion but to actually do it. Graphic design and architecture can behave in similar ways that body and technology are now behaving together. As a follow up to Book One, a research manifesto, Book Two is a summation of critical influences and their impacts on the design persona, but, is also a proposed establishment of a design agenda.‘It is a Building’ points to the subjectivity of the agenda, reflections on graphic design as an architectural body, as post design, but also ‘building’ as literal process for ‘making’ design.
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