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book will gather remixed and remastered articles (primarily from Emigre magazine) plus a large selection of new and unpublished [...]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 [...]
The Chronographical Survey #2: The Atlantic
My longest-running magazine subscription is for the Atlantic (Monthly), going back some 20+ years. I can’t recall exactly where I first encountered it, likely someone I was staying with or visiting frequently had a subscription. Though I was just out of art school, I ponied up for my own subscription when my borrowed access ended. [...]
