Articles on Critique
Thoughts, case studies, book reviews, debates and tips on Critique, written by prominent authors and carefully edited by FOROALFA.
- Author:
- Erik Spiekermann
- Title:
- From the C-Word to the D-Word
- Synopsis:
- Designers must take care of the words we use to talk about our work.
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- Author:
- Fernando Navia Meyer
- Title:
- Graphic design's carbon footprint
- Synopsis:
- Carbon footprint is defined as the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse effect gases, bound to a product or service.
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- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
- Title:
- Don't Mess with My Design!
- Synopsis:
- The interprofessional critique taboo: insecurity, paranoia and corporatism refuge.
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- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
- Title:
- A “graphic Houdini”
- Synopsis:
- The combined role of programmatic restrictions and creativity in the accomplishment of message effectiveness.
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- Author:
- Fernando Del Vecchio
- Title:
- A passion for design
- Synopsis:
- Who doesn't want to feel passion for what he or she likes, and loves?
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- Author:
- Lorena Garcia Hidalgo
- Title:
- Why Does the Client Think Different?
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- When a client rejects our work is usually because we do not take their opinion into account. We think that it is only us, the designers, who have the knowlegde.
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- Author:
- Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero
- Title:
- When Conviction Gets in the Way
- Synopsis:
- Not all pathways lead us to the same design, nor we all have to design through the same pathway.
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- Author:
- Ricardo Rangel
- Title:
- Creation as the Human Essence
- Synopsis:
- In a world surrounding us with material, creation has become part of our essence, a key piece in the evolution of mankind.
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- Author:
- David Gallo
- Title:
- Planned Obsolescence
- Synopsis:
- Design should no longer respond to market interests anymore, but to the human needs that as a global community we have created as time goes by.
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- Author:
- Ana Yago
- Title:
- Keep the User in Mind to Overcome the Crisis
- Synopsis:
- The user – buyer – needs new incentives to purchase a product. It is not enough for it to be functional, it needs to fulfil the values and the lifestyle of the user
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- Author:
- Ana Yago
- Title:
- Sundays Smell of Roast Chicken
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- The least one can ask of a chair is for it to be functional and ergonomic but these qualities no longer suffice Today a chair will have to adjust to the shifting tastes of society
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- Author:
- Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero
- Title:
- Realities and Conventions
- Synopsis:
- Even though we refuse to accept it, there is indeed life in other brains: the culture of scorn harms us designers.
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- Author:
- Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero
- Title:
- Usage and brand
- Synopsis:
- Can we design to unbrand instead of branding? It'd be convenient to «self-design» ourselves through our own ways of using, without others marking us with their ways of design.
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- Author:
- José Antonio Giménez
- Title:
- Industrial Design Shortens the Crisis
- Synopsis:
- Industrial design, or to put it better, the application of design to industry have had a stimulating effect in the past.
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- Author:
- Julio Broca
- Title:
- Image as idea, graphic and message
- Synopsis:
- What is an image? How is it conceived? How is it part of a message?
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- Author:
- Cecilia Salinas
- Title:
- Paul Ricoeur and creative search
- Synopsis:
- The origin of the creative act from a philosopher's perspective.
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- Author:
- José Antonio Giménez
- Title:
- Ave, Caesar, Morituri Te Salutant
- Synopsis:
- The values and sensations that used to be conveyed through the physical characteristics of the medium should not be replaced by a void now.
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