The manuscript of Volume has been delivered to the publisher, Princeton Architectural Press, and is in the process of editing. The projected publication date is August 2010. Some of the writings mentioned previously have been retitled and a revised track listing is given below, with word counts. However, some previously published works have been substantially [...]
Volume: the book is in the works
I am now at work on a collection of essays titled Volume: writings on graphic design, music, art, and culture to be published by Princeton Architectural Press (if all goes well) likely sometime in 2010. This book will gather remixed and remastered articles (primarily from Emigre magazine) plus a large selection of new and unpublished [...]
Kenneth on Design Observer
Please click on over to Design Observer and read my latest essay, the post “I Believe in Design,” which went on line March 22. For a gallery with more images of the van mentioned at the start and end of the piece, go here.
The Chronographical Survey #3: Four Minutes to Midnight, Issue 10
Projects like the visual/literary journal Four Minutes to Midnight (23:56 from now on) evoke Steve Baker’s “A Poetics of Graphic Design?” The 1994 article—which appeared in the Andrew Blauvelt-edited New Perspectives: Critical Histories of Graphic Design—is one of the most intriguing essays written about graphic design criticism. It proposed a unique method of representing design [...]
