Spotty. Neglected. Abandoned. Dead-ended. Nevertheless some dead-ends are worth revisiting. If the fall of Soviet Union some 20 odd years ago consigned Communism and Marxist to some sort of imaginary intellectual dustbin, it is interesting to contemplate the counterfactual: what if the cybernetic central planned economy actually could function as a utopian provider of plenty [...]

Separate but intertwined, the history of graphic design has a unique relationship to architectural history. One could describe it as a kind of coevolution, symbiotic perhaps, even if graphic design remains in architecture’s deep shadow. Only rarely are the intricacies of this relationship teased out into the light. In a recent March 2010 talk at [...]