- Feb 2024
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openlab.citytech.cuny.edu openlab.citytech.cuny.edu
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Graphic designers produce representations of society, and they help create access to information and ideas. But who gets to be represented, and who gets access?
It is essential to question what we see as authority just because it looks official. The internet has opened information and platform access to many more people. What that looks like in the future is literally up to us. We can have a great effect as visual artists and strategic thinkers on how culture grows. What will "inclusive" mean 20 years from now. Will we still be fighting the same fights?
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designopendata.wordpress.com designopendata.wordpress.com
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mid-twentieth century, Josef Müller-Brockmann and Paul Randconnected design methodologies to the world of business
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Müller-Brockmann
Josef Müller-Brockmann father of the International Typographic Style and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rand
Paul Rand, who made big scary computers warm and fuzzy
https://www.ibm.com/design/language/ibm-logos/rebus/
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/paul-rand-ibm-think-magazine-eye-bee-m-rebus-cover-1
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El Lissitzky, whose posters, books, and exhibitions are amongthe most influential works of twentieth-century design, had a huge impact
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scholar and designer Helen Armstrong,
She was "emerging" in 2006 when this was written, nearly 20 years ago. She's still a working professor with interesting projects.
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