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Andrew Satake Blauvelt Elevated Graphic Design Far Beyond Notions of “Problem Solving”

Eye on Design

“Graphic design must be seen as a discipline capable of generating meaning on its own terms without undue reliance on commissions, prescriptive social functions, or specific media or styles,” wrote designer, curator, and writer Andrew Satake Blauvelt in 2003. .

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The Current Crisis Makes it Clear: We Need a New Deal for Affordable Housing

Azure Magazine

There are, in effect, two parallel but distinct housing crises: While the decades-long erosion of government-led housing programs has left homeless and low-income people without support, rapidly escalating land values in major cities are quickly making rent – let alone home-ownership – all but unattainable for middle-case urbanites.

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The snake that eats its tail

UX Collective

From the shadows on the wall in Plato’s allegory of the cave to Neil Postman’s warning that we are ‘amusing ourselves to death’ (Postman 2006) with entertainment, concerns over media, distraction, and attention linger in our public discourse. What is the effect of constant exposure to information on our attention?