Miscellaneous Materials Collection 008
Welcome to the 008th collection of semi-random documents known as “Miscellaneous Materials”
I know it has only been 10 days since the last one… but I had amassed a new folder of stuff so quickly I figured I had to share now!
This month weighs in at an even 30 documents. It's a figurative pile.
As usual, my digital document collecting is all over the place. There are some documents reflecting on different ideas/proposals for radical pedagogical approaches. There are some pdfs that came up in searches looking for other futures; analyzing our pasts differently; trying to use more respectful and inclusive ideas for defining design. There are a handful of documents for pondering how design and designing and the teaching of design might fit sustainability into its constituent parts more holistically. There's also a PDF from NASA — what plants take the most contaminants out of a closed environment; which plants put the most O2 into the air... And a proposal for getting the city of Baltimore on a zero-waste track.
I'm having a hard time getting things done lately. So, having a way to procrastinate is great — this letter today is brought to you by all sorts of projects I should be working on instead.
re: the Papanek poster from last time, still not much new info -- I did find out Papanek drew it up in response to a group of students asking about his design process. And its from 1969, printed as a poster in 1973... and it was in the Walker's Hippie Modernism show... not much else as of yet. I'll let you know when I find either an amazing giant scan of it; or someone that has more knowledge and can fill me in more on its content.
I'm currently working on a new lecture idea: what does sustainable graphic design look like... I mean, this title isn't new, I've done plenty in the past riffing on that title. But the content is new. I've been amassing a list of books whose design is (either in process, technique, material, form, etc.) somehow "sustainable." This includes books like Cradle-to-Cradle designed using the text's "technical nutrient" philosophy; Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary whose "interior paper gets gradually thinner from the beginning to the end, conveying scarcity and depletion through the materiality of the book"; and Sara De Bondt's design for Radical Nature that utilized a special "manifesto" she and her team put together on more ecological printing/production methods … Anyway, if you have any other ideas to throw my way on this front, I'm totally invested in finding more examples of interesting graphic design solutions that are also symbolic gestures dealing in some interesting way with sustainability, ecology, or climate change.
Enjoy. My email is open for response and conversation.
Download a zip of Miscellaneous Materials 008 from dropbox!
Until the next collection.
Cheers.
Kristian Bjornard
507 301 8402
bjornmeansbear@member.fsf.org
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image in use: Image from page 250 of "Birds I have kept in years gone by : with original anecdotes and full directions for keeping them successfully" (1885) -- no known copyright restrictions
Fonts in use: Compagnon, Grobe Deutschmeister, and Le Murmure
I know it has only been 10 days since the last one… but I had amassed a new folder of stuff so quickly I figured I had to share now!
This month weighs in at an even 30 documents. It's a figurative pile.
As usual, my digital document collecting is all over the place. There are some documents reflecting on different ideas/proposals for radical pedagogical approaches. There are some pdfs that came up in searches looking for other futures; analyzing our pasts differently; trying to use more respectful and inclusive ideas for defining design. There are a handful of documents for pondering how design and designing and the teaching of design might fit sustainability into its constituent parts more holistically. There's also a PDF from NASA — what plants take the most contaminants out of a closed environment; which plants put the most O2 into the air... And a proposal for getting the city of Baltimore on a zero-waste track.
I'm having a hard time getting things done lately. So, having a way to procrastinate is great — this letter today is brought to you by all sorts of projects I should be working on instead.
re: the Papanek poster from last time, still not much new info -- I did find out Papanek drew it up in response to a group of students asking about his design process. And its from 1969, printed as a poster in 1973... and it was in the Walker's Hippie Modernism show... not much else as of yet. I'll let you know when I find either an amazing giant scan of it; or someone that has more knowledge and can fill me in more on its content.
I'm currently working on a new lecture idea: what does sustainable graphic design look like... I mean, this title isn't new, I've done plenty in the past riffing on that title. But the content is new. I've been amassing a list of books whose design is (either in process, technique, material, form, etc.) somehow "sustainable." This includes books like Cradle-to-Cradle designed using the text's "technical nutrient" philosophy; Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary whose "interior paper gets gradually thinner from the beginning to the end, conveying scarcity and depletion through the materiality of the book"; and Sara De Bondt's design for Radical Nature that utilized a special "manifesto" she and her team put together on more ecological printing/production methods … Anyway, if you have any other ideas to throw my way on this front, I'm totally invested in finding more examples of interesting graphic design solutions that are also symbolic gestures dealing in some interesting way with sustainability, ecology, or climate change.
Enjoy. My email is open for response and conversation.
Download a zip of Miscellaneous Materials 008 from dropbox!
Until the next collection.
Cheers.
Kristian Bjornard
507 301 8402
bjornmeansbear@member.fsf.org
±±±±±±±±±±
image in use: Image from page 250 of "Birds I have kept in years gone by : with original anecdotes and full directions for keeping them successfully" (1885) -- no known copyright restrictions
Fonts in use: Compagnon, Grobe Deutschmeister, and Le Murmure
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