Pedro Matos

Caos

Industrialização

Autonomia

If disciplines are the little dots on the map of knowledge, antidisciplinary space, the space of design, is the white area in between.

Graphic Design really is simply a kind of medium, a method, a technology, a tool but it’s not the final product.” This is really a provocation by this generation of designers to say: those old people in the 80’s were too much focused on the notion of consolidating a lot of legitimacy around graphic design, almost graphic design for graphic designers sake, where the most interesting things in the world at large were always beyond that. — Andrew Blauvelt, 'Graphic Design Now In Graduate Education: Love, Hate, Hope, Fear'

Designers have struggled to change their practice without first understanding it, treating graphic design’s commodity condition as “an extremely obvious, trivial thing”. As a result, critical practice continually posits new ground without being able to measure its distance from what already exists. It is always running away from itself, only to find that the social role it hoped to evade has adjusted, amoeba-like, to reabsorb it. — J. Dakota Brown