Big exciting news: Kiyonori Muroga of IDEA Magazine and Ian Lynam of VCFA have been chosen to co-curate the Czech Republic’s 27th Brno Biennial’s Study Room, a gallery housing a collection of readings that form the academic component of one of the world’s most celebrated and longest-running design exhibitions.

The theme and title for the Study Room is “Tabula Rasa: Worlds Connecting or Design Mannerism”. Here, the Study Room theme essay:

Tabula Rasa: Worlds Connecting or Design Mannerism

As a result of the victory of modernization, the word “design” is prevalent across the globe. You can talk about design, but only as long as one situates the conversation within the disciplines and established rubrics of modern design. However, the fundamental meaning of the word “design” and how it is interpreted is not so obvious and common. Interpretations, mindsets, and nuances vary from culture to culture and country to country.

While graphic design history in the 20th century has become rich and meaningful, the variations in perception of what “design” actually is have not been explored deeply. During the cold war period, publications and events like Brno Biennial worked as the gateway of potential cultural exchange, such as how design might be defined between cultures.

Due to rapid globalisation since the end of 20th century, graphic design has become both deeply rigorous, but at the same time, deeply homogenous. Modern graphic design (and its discourses) seems to be more and more distilled and filter out the culture and history outside of the established boundaries of design as cultural capital, cultural production, and centralised discourse.

It is ironic that the division between ‘locality’ and ‘globality’ has been so deep while technology and economy have increased the speed and ease of global communication.

However, there have been individuals and works whom have veered away from the established norms – the established track of Western modernist ideals, norms and forms. A global inability to procure localised bodies of knowledge – be they geographic or metaphysical – is of utmost interest to us in terms of curation of the Brno Study Room 2016 – to help expose publications either on the periphery or completely outside of Western ideas of graphic design discourse, dialectics, and comprehension.

We aim for the Brno Biennial Study Room 2016 to be a place of reconnecting what we perceive as ‘worlds’ – spheres of activity that are technocratic, cultural and ‘other’ in nature – reconciling the slippage between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ in a heretofore unseen way that sidesteps Orientalization, imparts mystery, and promotes understanding. We are at a moment in time where what “design” is seems commonly accepted globally, yet in reality represents a multitude of attitudes and perspectives.

Reading room attendees are urged to think of the tabula rasa (the blank slate) in its most innate form – the wax slate which the Romans used for note-taking. Attempt to allow your mind to warm over your preconceptions of what design actually is prior to involving yourself in this exhibition. The Neoliberal era’s Big 5 (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft) have shorn citizens of the world of their autonomy in decision-making and ideology-forming, shifting individuals en masse from being users to being mere participants. Our hope is that individuals who encounter the Study Room do the opposite – that the findings within instead instill a sense of agency and re-evaluation, of mystery and greater meaning.

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Lynam and Muroga have invited a Who’s Who of contemporary graphic design practitioners, critics, writers, publishers and curators who have at least one eye trained toward or one foot in Asia including:

• Aaron Nieh
• ABAKE
• Akiyama Shin
• Caryn Aono
• Chris Ro
• Daijiro Ohara
• Fumio Tachibana
• Guang Yu
• Heiquiti Harata
• Helmut Schmid
• Javin Mo
• Jens Mueller
• John Warwicker
• Kenya Hara
• Kirti Trivedi
• Kohei Sugiura
• Kymn Kungsun
• Leonard Koren
• Lu Jinren
• Na Kim
• Nobuhiro Yamaguchi
• Peter Bilak
• Philippe Egger
• Randy Nakamura
• Ryan Hageman
• Santi Lawrachawee
• Shutaro Mukai
• SO+BA
• Sulki and Min Choi
• Tetsuya Goto
• Wang Zhi-Hang
• Xiao Chenzi
• Ya-Leng Yu
• Yoshihisa Shirai
• Yukimasa Matsuda

Lynam and Muroga will be present at the opening of the Biennial and will be giving a public talk about Japanese design history and the effects of globalization on design in Asia.latest Nike Sneakers | plain white nike air force ones women high top Colorways, Release Dates, Price , Gov