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Tobias Van Schneider updated
Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles for Good Design 2017 Tech Industry Edition and posted it in on Twitter, where it got widely circulated. It’s a jaundiced indictment of the abuses of design, but will everyone read it that way?
Jessica isn’t so sure:
I have to say, when I saw this thing—and some of the comments are brilliant, as you say, Michael, and wonderful, and you see immediately that it’s framed with irony. But I found myself wondering if everybody who saw it in their feed would understand he was being sarcastic.
Also mentioned:
The Obama Presidential Center
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
Chicago Tribune coverage of the Obama Presidential Center
ArchDaily, Billie Tsien Discusses Design Ideas for Obama Presidential Library
National Archives, History of Presidential Libraries
The Fyre Festival pitch deck
Wikipedia, List of presidential libraries
Ai Weiwei, How Censorship Works
Justin Davidson, A Portrait of I. M. Pei at (Nearly) 100
Alexandra Lange on Late Modernism
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Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati, and has been a partner in the New York office of Pentagram since 1990. Michael is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art.
Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer and writer. A former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Eye and Communications Arts magazine, she is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame. Jessica received both her BA and MFA from Yale University where she has taught since 1994. In 2013, she won the AIGA medal.