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Cultural appropriation: can designers ever responsibly “borrow” from other cultures?

Design Week

.” Struggling to articulate how the loss of this hand-crafted sign actually felt, Oberoi launched the platform to record other instances of India graphic design that remained. “And what’s happening now is that people are starting to sit in the little boxes that people outside of India have created for us.”

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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

One of my favorite pieces by the artist Shannon Ebner is ASTER/SK R/SK R/SK, a work that comprises four flickering light boxes spelling out ASTER/SK over two lines. She’s what I would term a “designer’s artist.” Art that dismantles language, isolates it from its meaning, and treats it as object has proliferated ever since.

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