Limited Language ist eine 2 5 von Colin Davies (University of Wolverhampton) und Monika Parrinder (Royal College of Art, London) begründete Website, die der Diskussion um Design eine zeitgemässe Plattform gibt. In den vier Jahren seit der Live-Schaltung sind zahlreiche Essays und Kommentare zu den Schlüsselthemen der heutigen visuellen Kommunikation zusammengetragen worden. Das Buch amp nbsp limited language : rewriting design amp nbsp untersucht nun die Beziehung zwischen traditionellen Print-Formaten und neuen digitalen Tools wie dem Bloggen. Hybride Medien verändern heute bereits das Design wie kann man sich diese zunutze machen, um auch das Schreiben über Gestaltung neu zu denken? amp nbsp limited language : rewriting design amp nbsp kreiert einen innovativen «Schreib-Raum» und ermöglicht die Distanz und Reflektion, die nur ein Buch bieten kann. Jedes Kapitel enthält einen Artikel der Website, der mit User-Kommentaren konfrontiert wird, während diverse Farbabbildungen die Artikel/Rückmeldungs-Konglomerate illustrieren. www.limitedlanguage.org

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LIMITED LANGUAGE: EXPANDED TABLE OF CONTENTS Agenda What is hybrid media? amp nbsp Critical Moments: Design in the matrix of visual culture • Conflicting territory by Limited Language – the end of discipline • The problem with design / To come 2 9 – 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 amp amp 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 amp nbsp 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 2 8 - 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? amp nbsp 3 Tools • Design and conflict by Limited Language - can vernacular design counter the corporate language of protest? • Copyleft / To come 2 9 – an alternative to copyright? • 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 .4 seconds by Limited Language – on chance operations amp nbsp 4 Tactics • All in the process by Limited Language – on the aesthetics of relational communication • Open work / To come 2 8 – 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 amp nbsp 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 2 8] • 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 event-space? • Kodak moments and Nokia digits… by Limited Language - snap-shot travel amp nbsp Sensual Aesthetics • Silence is white, not golden by Limited Language - the relationship between sound, image and design • Sound in violence / To come 2 9 • The extra ear of the other by Joanna Zylinska – on listening to Stelarc • Earlids and brainlids: on thoughts and sounds by Angus Carlyle – a concentrated listening experiment • Sensual typography? by Limited Language - Robert Brownjohn, a review amp nbsp 7 Digital Aesthetics • You can have any design as long as its digital by Limited Language - the loss of materiality • The digital hand / To come 2 8 • This page is no longer on this server… by Limited Language - channel zapping and hyper links • Digital glass by Jon Wozencroft - a digital Arts and Crafts? Wishful thinking… • After digital… by Limited Language - a digital Arts and Crafts movement amp nbsp 8 Critical Underpinnings • Ticking off the list by Limited Language – on design history, unlisted… • Radical practice: where do we go from here? To come 2 9 • Before a manifesto by Metahaven – can we still write a manifesto from the ideological void? • Critics don't R.I.P by Catherine Guiral - if we revive the critic, can we revive the culture of design? • Hybrid writing as critical practice by Limited Language – a poetics of blogging amp nbsp Final Thoughts: Unfinished processes Bibliography/webography Index of key ideas Full reader credits Image credits amp nbsp amp nbsp