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massive change

specialk420 — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 09:38:44 -0800

bruce mau's massive change
"Design has emerged as one of the world's most powerful forces. "

By: euphorb

euphorb — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:54:45 -0800

Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto. I've found it very useful.

By: concreteforest

concreteforest — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:44:28 -0800

I visited this in Vancouver last Thursday and would have to say I wasn't hugely impressed. There were a few interesting exhibits, but it wasn't about design it was about scientific advancement and how wonderful the world will be in a few years. Like an updated version of tomorrowland. Then again, I work in the design field, so maybe I'm biased.

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:44:30 -0800

"Design" hasn't emerged at all, it's always been around. "... the world's most powerful forces."? Like Oprah Winfrey, gravity, the U.S. military? "Now that we can do anything what will we do?" Ha, ha, ha...someone should tell Bruce Mau Star Trek hasn't happened yet and millions of people are still dying of cancer. Most of what Mau says is vacuous and a waste of time. He's a good graphic designer though.

By: joeclark

joeclark — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:53:55 -0800

Yeah. Bruce Mau. Great. Why don't you have a look at his copyright policies before you start buttering him up?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:23:39 -0800

"Design has emerged as one of the world's most powerful forces. " That's comedy, right?

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:40:11 -0800

Bruce Mau can kiss my shiny metal ass.

By: donovan

donovan — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:27:43 -0800

I was curious but skeptical of this project--seemed all bluster and flash and no substance--but but then I saw it a week ago and came away impressed and filled with hope that otherwise seems to be in short suppy.

By: Practise

Practise — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 05:07:57 -0800

Euphorb, I think you might find Dean Allen's Annotated Maunifesto even more useful. Graphic design is seemingly too narrow a discipline for Mau to now occupy. He appears to be engaged in a semantics reshuffle where scientific research and achievement is seized upon and appropriated as "design".

By: euphorb

euphorb — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:14:02 -0800

Thanks for the link but there seems to be some sort of embedded MIDI of the sound of an axe being ground over and over on that site. Oddly enough, I noticed that I was following many of Mau's principles, some consciously, some unconsciously, in my line of work (scientific research). It is interesting that two people can read the same list and where one sees cliches and posturing another sees ideas to encourage creativity.

By: Sijeka

Sijeka — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:39:18 -0800

best part of the exhibition was people being asked to write down their thoughts on post its and putting them on the wall. A shitload of people wrote literally +on+ the walls sentences like 'I PREFER TO WRITE THINGS HERE RATHER THAN ON PAPER' and 'I HOPE YOU ARE RECYCLING THOSE POST ITS' or 'THIS SHOW IS THE BEST EXCUSE FOR MASS CONSUMERISM I HAVE EVER SEEN'. I left the exhibition extremely mad as i don't see anything 'aesthetic' in the 'aesthetic of capacity' if we don't actually use it. Talk and talk and I never see any action.