Other Worlds: A 4-Year, 20-Issue Retrospective
Other Worlds was launched in July 2021. Over the past four years, twenty issues have been published. In this retrospective, we celebrate the richness and...
OW #20: "The Parable of the Coconut: On Kamala Harris’s 2024 Campaign Strategy" by Noemi Biasetton
In this issue, Noemi Biasetton examines Kamala Harris’s viral hype-based campaign, which aimed to engage young voters through meme culture and the “brat”...
OW #19: “They Built World: A Boyhood in Graphic Design” by Gilbert
In this issue, Gilbert offers a vivid autofiction of their childhood fascination with graphic design, detailing formative encounters with cult magazines,...
OW #18: “Typographic Bodies: From Colonial Dictatorship to Sex Education” by Silvio Lorusso
In this short issue, Silvio Lorusso reflects on a visit to the Aljube Museum in Lisbon. There, he noticed a photo from the colonial past of Timor where...
OW #17: “Useful Overdrive: On the Usefulness of Chindōgu” by Ana Margarida São Miguel & Madalena Mourinha
In this issue, Ana Margarida São Miguel and Madalena Mourinha, both currently studying at DELLI, explore the Chindōgu movement, highlighting how its...
OW #16: “Other Typographic Worlds: Recap (Part II)” by Rita Carvalho
In this issue, Rita Carvalho details parts of the 13th Encontro De Tipografia, including the last day of the conference, several workshops, a small trip and...
OW #15: “Other Typographic Worlds: A Partial Recap” by Silvio Lorusso
In this issue, Silvio Lorusso chronicles a day of the 13th Encontro De Tipografia, which took place between the 23rd and the 25th of November at the Lusófona...
OW #14: “‘I Understand’: Navigating the Dutch Immigration Center Website” by Maisa Imamović
In this issue, web developer and writer Maisa Imamović dissects a tiny yet crucial user experience that occurs during the process of obtaining a residence...
OW #13: “God Save Alegria: On Détournement” by Ana Henriques
In this issue, Ana Henriques delves into the various uses of détournement, a cultural technique developed by Guy Debord and the Situationists to hijack the...
OW #12: “What is a Dashboard” by Nathaniel Tkacz
In this issue, Swedish-Australian media theorist Nathaniel Tkacz discusses the essential characteristics of a dashboard and explains how this ubiquitous but...
OW #11: “Digitally-Disadvantaged Languages” by Zaugg, Hossain and Molloy
In this issue, researchers Isabelle A. Zaugg, Anushah Hossain and Brendan Molloy explain why a large amount of spoken and written languages are digitally-...
OW #10: “Bruno Latour, Designer” by Cameron Tonkinwise
In this issue, Cameron Tonkinwise, Professor of Design Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, reflects on the “annoyingly prolific” production of...
OW #9: “Preservation, not Perfection!”- An Interview with the People’s Graphic Design Archive by Michele Galluzzo
In this issue of Other Worlds, designer and design historian Michele Galluzzo speaks with Brockett Horne and Briar Levit, co-founders of the People's Graphic...
OW #8: “Who Can Afford to Be Critical? What Can Criticality Afford?” by Afonso de Matos
In this issue of Other Worlds, Netherlands-based Portuguese designer and researcher Afonso de Matos looks back at his educational journey which led him from...
OW #7: “Progress and Bigness: The Lineage of Design Events” by Hannah Ellis
In her book The Circuit (available here), graphic design writer, researcher and educator Hannah Ellis investigates the actual meaning of design when it...
OW #6: “The Design of Hope: Stayaway Covid and Its Shortcomings” by Manufactura Independente
In this issue of Other Worlds, Ana Isabel Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente, founders of the F/LOSS-oriented design studio Manufactura Independente, rigorously...
OW #5: “The Loop: Medical Devices, Safety, and Care” by Pernilla Manjula Philip
In this issue of Other Worlds, Pernilla Manjula Philip reflects on the various practices of care revolving around her illness. A complex scenario emerges:...
OW #4: "Design and Power - Part 1" by Silvio Lorusso
In this contribution, Silvio Lorusso examines various ways in which designers have conceptualized, expressed and exerted their power. Furthermore, he looks...
OW #3 - "May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way": Five Questions to a Dutch Design School's Meme Page
An interview between Silvio Lorusso and @wdka.teachermemes During the last year or two, an informal network of Instagram accounts linked to specific...
OW #2: "Design for Obsolete Devices" by Anaëlle Beignon
French designer Anaëlle Beignon recently graduated from the Interaction Design department of Malmö University. In this excerpt from her master thesis,...