Long-term relations
Relation, flow, dialogue, connectivity, emergence, network, becoming.
These terms seem to be the buzzwords in the current vocabulary of
design.
Archive for September, 2005
Some Thoughts on the ‘Problem’ of Flat Vector Graphics
Whilst many practitioners celebrate the rise of hand-drawn illustration in the face of a computer-based approach to visual communication, I think it’s time to reassess the terms of the debate and assert, amongst other things, that digital techniques have brought about the re-emergence of the spatial plane as a basic structuring element of design. This is not to say that it ever went away, rather exponents of a hand-drawn (some say ‘self-expressive’) practice simply lost sight of its centrality to the constitution of their own formal concerns.