Articles on Culture
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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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- Author:
- André Ricard
- Title:
- From the Useful-object to the Object-tool
- Synopsis:
- Freed from its functional responsibility, useful-objects appear as single-useful formal phenomena whose morphology is used to express a particular message.
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- Author:
- Kevin Murray
- Title:
- What is Southern design?
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- Conventionally, design is a form of development that trickles down from the North to the South. But the strength of tradition in Southern cultures provides rich resources.
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- Author:
- Jorge Luis Muñoz
- Title:
- What is social design?
- Synopsis:
- Design's social impact is a research area not covered enough by designers.
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- Author:
- Martha Gutiérrez Miranda
- Title:
- Design and intelligence development
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- Human beings are born with several potentialities marked by genetics; nevertheless, today we know that we can develop some others through certain stimulus, like design.
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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:
- Norberto Chaves
- Title:
- Design and message credibility
- Synopsis:
- Communicates' design as a mean to the conquest of plausibility: sender and referent transparency.
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- Author:
- Victor Garcia
- Title:
- Kusi Kusi: Identity as a (regrettable) ‘State affair’
- Synopsis:
- A recognized puppet theater from Lima, multi-award winning internationally, active for half a century, is claiming against Channel 7 TV Perust for usurping their brand.
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- Author:
- Victor Garcia
- Title:
- Design on the Edge
- Synopsis:
- Marcos García is a talented Argentinean graphic designer and illustrator who uses cutter instead of pencil to produce his amazing designs.
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- Author:
- Lorena Garcia Hidalgo
- Title:
- Why Does the Client Think Different?
- Synopsis:
- 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:
- Forum, “Fuero” and “Foras”!
- Synopsis:
- On the shared construction of a design without geographical, academic or professional boundaries.
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- Author:
- Jorge Del Toro
- Title:
- Creating Emotional Ties with Customers
- Synopsis:
- Companies should do more for their customers: they should establish an emotional connection.
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- Author:
- Carla Santana
- Title:
- Posada Beyond La Catrina
- Synopsis:
- A century since his death, José Guadalupe Posada left a wide heritage, not only engravings and skull, but he was a pioneer of editorial and graphic design in México.
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- Author:
- Pau De Riba
- Title:
- Reality of «Reality»
- Synopsis:
- Missing the authenticity of pre-marketing, we have created an equally artificial aesthetic of tradition and handicrafts.
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- Author:
- Marco Rinaldi
- Title:
- Are we destined to fail as entrepreneurs?
- Synopsis:
- The growing number of creative professionals that venture into entrepreneurship raises doubts and concern.
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