Design Theory

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Andy Goldsworthy: An Aesthetics of Sustainable Living

A paper delivered by Stuart Kendall at the 2010 CAA conference in Chicago.

Feminist design recap

Graphic design is graphic design because it involves creating a material embodiment of a client message that is legible and interesting to an intended target audience.

The Design that is not One: Engendering Design Discourse

Stuart Kendall delivered this lecture on Thursday, the 26th of February, 2009 at the College Art Association Annual Meeting in Los Angeles to a panel moderated by Stephen Eskilson and Aaris Sherin. Sheila Levrant de Bretteville was the other panelist. (above: April Greiman’s self-portrait for the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1987)

Baby Boomers and the Psychology of Design

“Eager to make up for time lost daydreaming in foxholes, soldiers arriving home from World War II rushed to their bedrooms with the wives and lovers who had patiently awaited their return. The result was a surfeit of bouncing babies, now known as the boomers, whose numbers are astounding. By 2030, the amount of Americans [...]

The absent object of graphic design writing

Vanessa Corrêa and Stuart Kendall delivered this paper as part of Design(ing) Criticism, a panel moderated by Carma Gorman and Elizabeth Guffey, at the College Art Association Annual Meeting in Boston. The other panelists were Johanna Drucker, Dennis Doordan, Denise Gonzalez Crisp, and Bruce King Shey.

Roland Barthes’ Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Stuart Kendall delivered this lecture at the Pratt Institute in New York as part of a symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of Roland Barthes’ Mythologies, 18 October 2007.

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