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Fuck All

Kenneth FitzGerald — Articles, Magazine

In this essay, Kenneth FitzGerald debates the seminal article Fuck Content (2005) by Michael Rock, challenging the fallacious idea that the history of graphic design is a history of form, not content.

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Curation, Cataloging, and Negative Capability

Randy Nakamura — Articles, Magazine

In this essay, Randy Nakamura debates the shift from genealogy to catalog in curating graphic design using the exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production (2011) as case-study.

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Japanese Graphic Design: Not in Production

Ian Lynam — Articles

This is the third iteration of an essay that first appeared in the German typography magazine Slanted 19. It is a contextual analysis and introduction to the issues at hand when considering cross-cultural discussions of graphic design between Asia and the Western World at present.

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