Scripto. Écrire, inscrire
From thought to its inscription, from the writer’s craft to their practice, Thierry Chancogne returns, in this new episode, to the act of writing in the strictest sense. With the distinction between the expression of a desire to convey meaning and the technical, material conditions of its inscription, the words of the text creak or tinkle through the process of ‘in-formation’ in the literal sense.
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Julien Prévieux, « Pour Lana », 2018 collectionScripto: the series in pictures...
Behind this history of graphic design before the modern era lies a rich, diverse and inspiring collection of resources... Explore the series Scripto in pictures...
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André Leroi-Gourhan, Tableau des signes scutiformes, in « L'art pariétal », 1993 articleScripto. The sedentarisation (part 2)
Temples and books are constructions. Both serve as vessels for the written word. Temples house sacred texts. They are monuments, places, and institutions of historical and cultural memory. Discover more in this new episode of the Scripto series.
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Pierre Auguste Renoir, The Reader, 1874-1876 articleFrom public reading to silence
Questioning a gendered vision of reading, historian Elizabeth Haines imagines a living, inclusive library.
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Theodor W. Adorno, detail, n.d. articleAdorno, functionalism and modernity
Thinking about functionalism with Theodor W. Adorno in the age of consumerism. A re-reading of the 1965 text by the Frankfurt School philosopher: ‘On Some Problems of Functionalism Today.’
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Simone C. Niquille/Technoflesh, Safety Measures, 2018 articleOn the fabrication of evidence...
Modelling tools to establish evidence in legal or political contexts... An interview with Simone Niquile and Francesco Sebregondi on the ‘design of truth’.
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D. Carter, M. Geerits, A. Gouillart, E. Malliaraki, peccary equipped with a biomarker Augmented Nature, 2018 articleDesigning the Wild!
The essay questions the possibility of ecosystem design, the lasting impact of social constructions of nature, and the role of technological intervention.
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Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 lineScripto. A history of graphic design before modernity,
By Thierry Chancogne. This series will explore writing from the perspective of the most diverse materials that author has encountered – artistic, technical, ethological, anthropological, psychological, archaeological, etc. – with the new era of the emergence of writing.
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Stéphane Mallarmé, Un coup de dé jamais n’abolira le hasard, first edition, Nouvelle Revue française, 1914 articleOn the transformation of the written word
In a short text, Walter Benjamin examines the effect of advertising on writing...
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Martino Gamper, Total Trattoria, The Aram Gallery, London, 2008 articleAt the table with Martino Gamper
In this interview, the designer talks with Emily King, Kai von Rabenau and other friends...
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The first Watermark workshop, founded in 1973, United States. articleThe death of the book? An opposing narrative
From his parent‘s bookbinding workshop to the production of his own books, artist Oscar Tuazon examines the way books are conceived.
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“Forty per cent" car, advert on the Revolico website, 2012 articleRevolico! From the big mess to the art of resourcefulness
Hybrid cars and technological disobedience in Cuba
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Jean Widmer, “Vallée de Chevreuse” animation panels on the A10, photographic record 1986 articleIn the backstage with Jean Widmer
An exclusive interview with the graphic designer, conducted by director Seb Coupy during the filming of the documentary “L'image qu'on s'en fait” (2019).
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Julien Magre, Troubles, 2014 articleFrom movement to action
With philosopher Joëlle Zask, an aesthetic journey?
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George Nelson, still film from “Requiem”, 1960 lineAutocritique. A biography of the automobile object
The new line of Problemata, to be read by the fireside...
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John Powers Severin dit John Severin, « L’incroyable Hulk», Marvel Comics, entre 1967 et 1989 articleScripto! First episode...
Now it's time for introductions... A modest anti-method of anachronism, discontinuity and divergence to address, through various connections between the written word and its undoubtedly extremely heterogeneous age.
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Samuel van Hoogstraten, “Slippers”, 1654 article“The picture-perfect home”
Domestic intimacy at the risk of exposure in the age of the R’bnb economy and GAFA. Perspectives, influences and ambiguities.
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Uliana Bychenkova, Kyiv, 2019 articleReactivated archives
A visual essay on the potential of graphic designers to re-appropriate Ukrainian logo archives.
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Volodymyr Lesniak. Corporate identity for 50 years of Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology 1978. lineZNAK! Ukrainian logotypes. 1910-2019
A research by Ukrainian graphic designers : U.N.A. Collective. Cataloguing, contextualising and reactivating ukrainian corporate trademarks from 1910 to 2019.
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Clark Richert, View of Drop City, The Complex, in El Moro, outside Trinidad, Colorado c. 1966 article“The Whole Earth Catalogue”, the next step for the white man?
How racism and sexism of mainstream America infiltrate counter-culture communities...
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Cornel Windlin, Die Spezialisten, 2000 articleEither a conceptual x...
The practice of the Swiss graphic designer Cornel Windlin in the light of the Dada movement and the very figure of Georges Maciunas (Fluxus).
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Preparatory document for the exhibition “Au temps de l’Espace” Centre Georges-Pompidou, 1983 articleFictional interstellar travel...
The scenographic devices of an exhibition-show in the 1980s.
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Le Lincoln Wand, c. 1966 articleA brief archaeology of computers
Optical pencil, sketchpad, shape library... Developments of computers and drawing interfaces between 1950 and 1967.
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William Gaver. One affordance leads to another articleTechnology Affordances
With William Gaver. Affordance, as a a way of focussing on the strengths and weaknesses of technologies.
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Montage de l’exposition Archéologie de la ville (1977). © Bibliothèque Kandinsky, MNAM/CCI, Centre Pompidou – Dist. RMN-Grand Palais articlePlongée dans les péripéties d’une exposition inaugurale
Le 2 février 1977, s’ouvre l’une des expositions inaugurales du Centre Pompidou : l’Archéologie de la ville conçue par Haus-Rucker-Co à l’issue d’une suite de turbulences et de hasards…