Capitalism could not exist without the coins, banknotes, documents, information graphics, interfaces, branding, and advertisements made by graphic designers. Even anti-consumerist strategies such as social design and speculative design are appropriated to serve economic growth. It seems design is locked in a cycle of exploitation and extraction, furthering inequality and environmental collapse. CAPS LOCK uses clear language and visual examples to show how graphic design and capitalism are ine...

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Dutch designers staan wereldwijd bekend om hun originaliteit en gedurfde innovaties, en hun werk dringt door tot in de haarvaten van onze maatschappij. Design is overal en de wereld lijkt maakbaar. Daaraan dragen ontwerpers bij, met hun onorthodoxe methoden en creatieve kracht. Al treft de coronacrisis de creatieve sector ingrijpend, de grote maatschappelijke en economische uitdagingen waar de wereld voor staat bieden ook veel kansen. Over hoeveel veerkrach...

Graphs, maps, stats, and diagrams: this collection of infographics explores the development of visual communication in the big data age. More than 400 exemplary graphics-ranging from journalism to art, government to education-are accompanied by essays tracing the evolving art form that is pictorial explanation. Complete with in-depth fact...

When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply do not see it anymore because it is everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design. At this moment, design registers its redundancy: our products, environments and services have been comprehensively improved. Everything has been designed to perfection and is under a permanent upgrade regime. Within such a paradigm, design is taken over by the capitalist logic of reproduction. But this does not come wit...

Een paar jaar geleden werd er op internet geschreven over het fenomeen van de Zesvleugelige Kip. Even leek ze echt te bestaan. Er werd in verschillende media over geschreven en ook doken er online beelden op van kippen met zes vleugels. Of dit fabelachtige creatuur echt bestaat, dat is nog steeds niet helemaal duidelijk.

In de hedendaagse media is het moeilijk om te bepalen wat echt nieuws en wat nep nieuws is. Het is makkelijk om informatie te manipuleren en de hoeveelheid nieuws, zowel waa...

The gorgeous official 10th Anniversary World of Tanks Art Book celebrates the game's incredible journey! A joint production between Wargaming and book publisher Cook and Becker, this book dives deep into the game and its history. Tank and armored vehicle designs are front and center, with game maps, garages and in-game events that all featured in the game's storied history explained in incredible detail, and through a richness of never-before seen imagery.

The World of Tanks book is available...

Inspired by the 2019 Bauhaus centennial, ‘Designing for Precarious Citizens’ links the ideals of the Bauhaus to research by designers and students on the living and housing conditions of vulnerable groups in society today. For the Bauhaus, technology was a tool for reducing the vulnerability of working-class citizens, but in modern society it often prevents people from being able to make decisions about their own future. The various design projects featured here follow on the ideas of arc...

Deze monografie gaat over het ontwikkelen en evalueren van ontwerp-concepten en waarom die vaardigheid cruciaal is bij het aanpakken van complexe problemen. Het laat zien hoe vertrouwen op je eigen intuïtie kan leiden tot relevante concepten en oplossingen. Het is van toepassing op allerlei uitdagingen: van die van Schiphol Airport tot aan hoe dementerende bejaarden actief te maken. De centrale boodschap in deze publicatie: blijf jezelf continu afvragen ‘Is het goed genoeg?’.

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This book is not just for reading. Design thinking is something you need to actually do. Reading about design thinking will increase your knowledge, but by doing it, you will learn what design thinking can mean for you, in your studies and your work. In this book we encourage you to take action: design thinking by doing.

Since the end of the last millennium, design thinking has received an increasing amount of attention from the business community, social organizations, universities and colle...

This book is not just for reading. Design thinking is something you need to actually do. Reading about design thinking will increase your knowledge, but by doing it, you will learn what design thinking can mean for you, in your studies and your work. In this book we encourage you to take action: design thinking by doing.

Since the end of the last millennium, design thinking has received an increasing amount of attention from the business community, social organizations, universities and colle...