senior studio

"The principles of design describe the ways that artists use the elements of art in a work of art." - The Getty

Cranbrook 2D Design Department

Cranbrook 2D Design Department

Katia Baudin

Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics

The internet has made our world larger and smaller at the same time, which also can be seen in terms of graphic design. Perhaps aesthetically, design has become much more eclectic, combining large ranges of styles, attitudes, techniques, and kinds of information. At the same time that eclecticism seems to have made design more uniform. When you take a look at a lot of current design blogs, it seems kind of odd that for instance South Korean, American, and Dutch graphic design look so much alike. I'm not saying it's a bad thing; it's just something that I find quite intriguing.

Cox & Grusenmeyer: Every project we do, both commissions and self initiated projects, arises from a fascination for graphic design. We look at content with the eyes of a graphic designer and we esearch with the interest of a graphic designer. Therefore our work is always confined to this territory. For instantce, our self-initiated project "Open Impact Channel" contains performances and installations. But the starting point of this project is a research into the imaginative power of advertising language, which is ultimately a design strategy, albeit from the opposite realm of the graphic design profession.

Something I "designed" this week lol