Autechre announced their new album titled ‘Oversteps’ to be out on 22 March. The album design is aptly created by The Designers Republic which reopened in 2009. Designers Republic is a cornerstone of the global alternative culture evolving since mid-90’s and one of the design studios whose output I appreciate greatly. Their reunion with Autechre among other Warp Records artists has made the news of this album launch all the better.
I went to the Design Museum for an exhibition of Dieter Rams’s output which I had mentioned earlier. It was a quite enjoyable exhibition as an evaluation and showcasing of a design approach. The fact that Rams’s aesthetic style based on production-consumption efficiency, originating from the differences of approaches between East and West Germany, has served as the foundation of the design philosophy behind the most expensive and elite products in today’s global market is rather insightful in picking up contemporary design approaches. I can’t help wondering how Ikea and Apple would have turned up if Rams had not been.
“Less but Better”.
Canabalt, bitmek bilmeyen Galcon takıntımı dinlendirmemi sağlayan bir iphone oyunu. Oyunda, bulunduğunuz şehirdeki yıkımdan ‘koşar’ adım, mümkün olduğunca uzağa kaçmaya çalışıyorsunuz. Oyun muhteşem müziği ve grafik dizaynı ile bana biraz Another World ve Flashback‘li günlerimi hatırlattı ve kendisini daha da çok sevdirdi. Zaman kaybetmeyi sevenler için.
‘Mid-Century Design”dan bahsetmişken Polaroid fotoğraf makinelerini anmadan olmaz. Amerikan ‘consumerism‘ kültürünü dizayn yaklaşımları ile şekillendirmiş en önemli isimlerden Charles ve Ray Eames‘in Polaroid’leri tanıttıkları bu videoda, basitçe insanları yeni bir tüketim alanı olacak olan ‘fotoğraf’ ile tanıştırıyorlar.
Bu filmi izlerken garip bir biçimde insanların ekonomik sınıf tanımlarının teknoloji tüketimi ile şekillendirilmeye başlandığı ilk ‘an”ı görür gibi oldum. Sanki bir gün Ray Kurzweil‘ın Singularity’si gerçekleşirse, karanlık bir delikte bu film de aklıma gelecek.
‘Mid-Century Modern‘ örneklerini çok keyifli biçimde tasnif edip eğlenen ve eğlendiren bir blog;
Akira‘nın animasyon ekibinden olan Tatsuyuki, kirli – sıvılı meka transformasyon, siber biyonik ve tekinsiz çocukların hakim olduğu distopik vizyonunu pek beğendiğim bir çizer. Şimdilerde kendisi ‘Superflat’ akımının en önemli icracısı Studio 4C‘de çalışıyor ki birlikte çalıştığı ekip bu akımla tüm anime-manga kültürünü değiştiren insanlardan oluşuyor. İçeriğinde güzel ’superflat’ örnekleri de bulunan, Tatsuyuki’nin seçme işlerini topladığı, ‘Cannabis Works Art Book”u Ideetrope Siberdepo’dan indirelim. —>
Bugüne kadar yapılmış en iyi bilimkurgu filmi olduğunu düşündüğüm Blade Runner’ın görsel tasarımları, Tron’un kült siberaracı, Aliens’ın Sulaco’su vs. gibi muhteşem futurist yaklaşımları geliştiren kişi, Syd Mead. Genellikle işlerindeki futurizm algısı, tasarımlarındaki olabilirlik olasılığının yaşatttığı tekinsizlik hissi ile tanımlanabilir. Bu da hikayelerde pek konforlu bir inandırıcılık etkisi yaratıyor. Biraz kendisini kurcaladıktan sonra Blade Runner ve Tron’u tekrar izlemek güzel olur.
Okuma zamanı istatistiklerinde artan eğri sağlamak için geliştirme ve düzenlemeler yapmak amacıyla, CSM‘in bu yıl için verdiği okuma listesini kaydediyorum. Okuyalım.
Journals
- Creative Review
– Eye magazine
– Graphis
– Idea – mag
– Design week
– The Design journal – Berg
– Colours
– Dot dot dot
Graphic Design:
Bilz, S. Type OneDie (Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2004)
Boss, B, E. AGI – Graphics design since 1950 (Thames and Hudson 2007)
Campbell, Alastair, The Designer’s Handbook (Little, Brown, 1993)
Crow D. Visual Signs – An Introduction to Semiotics (Ava Publishing 2005)
Garland, Ken, A Word in Your Eye (University of Reading, 1996)
Fawcett-Tang, R. Mapping (Rotovision 2005)
Fletcher, A. The Art of Looking sideways (Phaidon Press 2003)
Hofstadter, D. Metamagical Themes, Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern Basic Books and Control Creativity.
Kunst, W. Macro and Microaesthetics (Niggli Verlag 2004)
Hochuli, Jost, Designing Books (Hyphen Press, 1996)
Hutton, W. On the Edge: living with global capitalism (Vintage 2005)
Lessig, L. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture
McLean, Rauri, Typography (Thames & Hudson, 1980)
Mills, S Discourse. London: (Routledge, 2004)
Monnery, S. The Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art
Pipes, A. Production for Graphic Designers Laurence King Publishing
Robinson, Andrew, The Story of Writing (Thames & Hudson, 2000)
Swann, Cal, Language & Type (John Wiley, 1991)
Spencer, Herbert, Pioneers of Modern Typography (MIT Press, 2004)
Tshichold, Jan, The New Typography (University of California Press, 1998)
Digital Media:
Bachelard, Gaston The Poetics of Space (Beacon Press, 1994)
Calvino, Italo, Invisible Cities (Vintage, 1978)
Crouwell, Wim, Alphabets (Thames & Hudson, 1982)
Darley, Andrew, Visual Digital Culture. Surface, Play and Spectacle in New Media Genres (Routledge, 1999)
Druckery,Timothy, ed., Ars Electronica, Facing the Future (MIT Pres, 2001)
Ellis, J, Visible Fictions (Routledge, 1992)
Laurel, Brenda, The Art of Human-Computer interface Design
Laurel, Brenda, Computers as Theatre (Addison Wesley, 1993)
Lister, Martin ed The Photographic Image in Digital Culture (Routledge, 1994)
McKelvey, Roy, Hypergraphics (Rotovision, 1998)
McLoud, Scott, Understanding Comics (HaperCollins, 1994)
Morley, David Spaces of Identity; global media, electronic landscapes and cultural boundaries (Routledge, 1995)
Plant, Sadie Zeros and Ones (Fourth Estate, 1998)
Poynor, Rick ,The Graphic Edge (Booth-Clibborn, 1995)
Raban, Jonathan, Soft Cities (Harvill, 1998)
Rucker, Rudy, The Fourth Dimension (Houghton Mifflin, 1984)
Shields, Robert, Cultures of the Internet (Sage, 1996)
Southworth & Southworth, Maps: A Visual Survey and Design Guide
Tschumi, Bernard, Architecture and Disjunction (MIT Press, 1996)
Tufte, Edward; Envisioning Information, (Graphics Press, 1990)
Tufte ,Edward; The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Wolley, Benjamin, Virtual Worlds (Penguin, 1993)
Illustration:
Bland, David, A history of book illustration: the illuminated manuscript and the printed book (Faber, 1958)
Harthan, John, The history of the illustrated book: the western tradition
Hyland, Angus, Pen & mouse (Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001)
Hyland, Angus, Hand to eye (Laurence King, 2003)
Juno, Andrea, Dangerous drawings (Juno Publishing, 1997)
Linker, Kate, Love for Sale: the words and pictures of Barbara Kruger
Maizels, John, Raw Creation; outsider art and beyond? (Phaidon, 2000)
McCloud, Scott, Understanding comics: the invisible art (HarperCollins, 1994)
Noble, Ian, Picture perfect (Rotovision, 2003)
Park, Nick, Cracking Animation: The Aardman book of 3d animation
Richmond, Robin, Frida Kahlo in Mexico (Pomegranate Communications, 1994)
Williams, Nancy, Paperwork: the potential of paper in graphic design
Photography:
Agee, James and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Mifflin, 2001)
Arbus, Diane, An Aperture Monograph (Aperture,1997)
Avedon, Richard, In the American West (Harry N Abrams, 1993)
Barthes, Roland, Image, Music, Text, (Fontana, 1978)
Batchen, Geoffrey, Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History
Bolton, Richard, ed., The contest of meaning: critical histories of photography
Burgin, Victor, ed., Thinking Photography (Palgrave Macmillan, 1982)
Cadava, Eduardo, Words of light: theses on the photography of history
Campany, Ed David, Art and Photography (Phaidon Press, 2007)
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, The Mind’s Eye: writings on photography
Coleman, A. D., Light Readings: a photography critic’s writings 1968-78
Coleman, A. D., Critical Focus (Nazraeli Press, 1995)
Davies, John, A Green and Pleasant Land (Cornerhouse Publications, 1987)
Evans, Jessica & Hall, Stuart, eds., Visual Culture: The Reader, (Sage, 1999)
Fox, Anna, Langford’s Basic Photography (Elsevier Publishers, 2007)
Goldin, Nan, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (Aperture, 1989)
Graham, Paul, A1 The Great North Road (Grey Editions, 1983)
Griffin, Brian, Work (Central Books Ltd, 1989)
Hirsch, Marianne, ed., The Familial Gaze (Dartmouth College, 1999)
Grundberg, A, The Machine and the Garden in Crisis of the Real
Gursky, Andreas, MOMA New York (MOMA 2001)
Hirsch, Marianne, Family Frames: photography, narrative and postmemory
Jay, Bill, Occam’s Razor: An outside-in view of contemporary photography
Jeffrey, Ian, Photography: a concise history (Thames & Hudson, 1981)
Kee, R, The Picture Post Album (London: Barnet Jenkins, 1994)
Kismaric, S, British Photography from the Thatcher Years
Lingwood, James, The Epic & the Everyday: contemporary photographic art
Margolin, Victor, The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko,
Misrach, Richard, Violent Legacies (Aperture, 1992)
David, Moore, The Last Things (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008)
Morden, T, Documentary Past, Future? (Photography/Politics Two,1986)
Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy (University of Chicago Press, 1997)
Rabate, Jean Michel, ed., Writing the Image after Roland Barthes
Renner, Eric, Pinhole Photography (Focal Press, 1999)
Robert, Frank, The Americans (Steidl the Masters, 2008)
Roberts, John, The Art of Interruption: realism, photography and the everyday
Rogers, B. Documentary Dilemmas: Aspects of British Documentary Photography 83-93
Schmidt, Joachim, Photoworks (Photoworks 2007)
Sekula, A, On the Invention of Photographic Meaning in Thinking Photography
Sekula, A, Geography Lesson, (Vancouver, 1997)
Smith, Joshua P., Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s
Solomon-Godeau, A, Photography at the Dock, (University of Minnesota,1990)
Sontag, Susan, On Photography (Penguin, 1979)
Spence, Jo, ed., Family Snaps: the meanings of domestic photography
Squiers, Carol, ed., The Critical Image: essays on contemporary photography
Thomas, Julia, ed., Reading Images (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000)
von Amelunxen, Hubertus, Photography after Photography: representation in the digital age (G&B Arts International, 1997)
Wells, Liz ed., Photography: A critical introduction (Routledge, 2000)
Winogrand, Gary, Figments from the Real World (The Museum of Modern Art, 1988)
