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On Designing Happiness
On occasion of the Graphic Happiness II; 100 years of Dutch Graphic Design exhibition in China, a new publication was launched, with texts presented in both English and Chinese. The book provides various in depth essays on Dutch design by leading design critics, philosophers, and experts, while the designers featured in the exhibition are presented in full colour with beautifully illustrated overviews and texts highlighting their works and inspiration.
I wrote a piece on the characteristics of Dutch Graphic Design, particularly on how it perhaps differed from Chinese Graphic Design. I looked for the answer in the word 'happiness', which was the title of the exhibition, but remained unexplained. The idea of happiness for the Dutch has its roots in the thought of Aristotle.
Download the piece here.
Moralia etc. is the semi-professional excuse of Nik Brörmann to engage in applied ethics and all things moral.
read more here.
THE DREAM ARGUMENT // MACGUFFIN
MacGuffin is a design & crafts magazine, with stories about the life of ordinary things, often anonymously designed. Like the MacGuffins in Hitchcock films, these things are not the main characters, but the plot devices that set the story in motion.
Issue N° 1 (‘The Bed’) is all about the amazing backstage stories that revolve around our beds, for which I wrote a piece on the dream argument by Descartes. The words function as a note to the incredible visual work by Ola Lanko, also depicted in the magazine.
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