//Draft 1// In the first week, I chose Microsoft word as the tool. As a popular word processing tool, I started thinking about how to subvert its traditional use – How to manipulate this tool to communicate information in a different way? I started trying to make rules- no text. The constraints of the setting […]
Re-present the core arguments and ideas of Fuck Content (2009, Michael Rock) using the structure, style, form, method of Exercises in Style (1998, Raymond Queneau). – Notation The misconception that developing content is more essential than shaping it has become the measure of good design. However, treatment is a kind of text itself that reflects […]
The following list (attached file) is an index of Michael Rock’s excerpts (What does it mean to call a graphic designer an author? What is an author? Is there an auteur in the house? Designer as translator) from Designer as Author (1996). Michael Rock reexamines the nature of the designer and proposes the concept of […]
I chose carpet from the 3dsky website for my research. This is a collection of various carpets. Generally, they have similar uses and purposes, such as anti-slip and adding decoration or color to a room. Therefore they are bound in this set. But they are also different in many ways — I tried to start […]
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (1974) is a collection of Perec’s observations and contemplations of things around or interior to space. Perec’s way of seeing is seemingly simple yet extremely systematic, free from any preconceptions and offering no conclusions. He constantly emphasized observing and recording everything he could see, especially the trivial, imperceptible, and outside […]
Week 1 For the first week of Method of Investigation, I chose the construction site without hesitation, because my community is expanding which means the loud noise affects our daily life very much. I thought there are a lot to explore about noise, and I hope to find a particular way to show how noise […]