Limited Language is a web-platform for generating writing and discussion about the design process. In this title, each of the sub-sections comprises an article from the website, followed by a reflection/response to the topic by the responses raised on website.

LIMITED LANGUAGE: EXPANDED TABLE OF CONTENTS 0 Agenda What is hybrid media?   1 Critical Moments: Design in the matrix of visual culture • Conflicting territory by Limited Language – the end of discipline • The problem with design / To come 2009 – no more ‘solutions’ • Design in crisis by Ezri Tarazi – on capricious aesthetics • Patronising Prada by Nicky Ryan – on corporate appropriation of the avant-garde • The Beckhams, UFOS, Conferences & Harringtons by Maziar Raein – illusion of style • Love/hate by Johnny Hardstaff – on Stockholm Syndrome in graphic authorship • Brand hijacking by Jonathan Bell – on post-consumers and the battle for authenticity • Shock and awe by Limited Language – on violence as aesthetic and methodology in design   2 Critical Agents? Ethics and the politics of visual culture • Who are the semionauts? by Limited Language – new configurations of the designer • The last journalist/ To come 2008 - the designer as editor? • Design politics by John Russell – on pseudo-activity and the excess of representation • Illustrators, rather like women in The Bible… by Paul Bowman – on the cross cultural language of image-making • Street acts by Esther Leslie – on Ben Wilson • Work ethics by Mario Moura - does design need to get its own house in order first? • State Britain by Limited Language - a facsimile of protest?   3 Tools • Design and conflict by Limited Language - can vernacular design counter the corporate language of protest? • Copyleft / To come 2009 – an alternative to copyright? • Images of images: recording the traces of war by Limited Language - on photographs from the War in Iraq • Diventity: identity, density and diversity by Ayssar Arida – on a strategy for intuition • Speech, writing, print… by Michael Clarke - can typographic expression expose media rhetoric? • Visual communication in 0.4 seconds by Limited Language – on chance operations   4 Tactics • All in the process by Limited Language – on the aesthetics of relational communication • Open work / To come 2008 – on process and complexity • Malfunction as the crucial mode of experiment by Markus Miessen – on the value of failure as an alternative to the value of success • Boredom, b’dum, b’dum by David Crowley - an alternative to the heady stimulation of communication • What’s better than being the best: the new or the necessary? by Laurie Haycock Makela - beyond experiment, to experience • Slow times… by Limited Language – on the act of design as a counter to the culture of instant response   5 Tactics of Space • Skylines and cityscapes by Limited Language - soundbite cities • Analogous cities by David Phillips - the image and idea of a city • Territory (facts on the ground) by Kevin Slavin – writing territory with minds and media [from the starter brief for a Fabric Workshop, May 2008] • Exposing the line in film by Adam Kossoff – on borders, montage and negative space • Some thoughts on the ‘problem’ of flat vector graphics by Julia Moszkowicz - a sense of space in the world of super-flat • Report from the hawk-eye camera by Tom McCarthy – a cartography of event-space? • Kodak moments and Nokia digits… by Limited Language - snap-shot travel   6 Sensual Aesthetics • Silence is white, not golden by Limited Language - the relationship between sound, image and design • Sound in violence / To come 2009 • The extra ear of the other by Joanna Zylinska – on listening to Stelarc • Earlids and brainlids: on thoughts and sounds by Angus Carlyle – a concentrated listening experiment • Sensual typography? by Limited Language - Robert Brownjohn, a review   7 Digital Aesthetics • You can have any design as long as its digital by Limited Language - the loss of materiality • The digital hand / To come 2008 • This page is no longer on this server… by Limited Language - channel zapping and hyper links • Digital glass by Jon Wozencroft - a digital Arts and Crafts? Wishful thinking… • After digital… by Limited Language - a digital Arts and Crafts movement   8 Critical Underpinnings • Ticking off the list by Limited Language – on design history, unlisted… • Radical practice: where do we go from here? To come 2009 • Before a manifesto by Metahaven – can we still write a manifesto from the ideological void? • Critics don’t R.I.P by Catherine Guiral - if we revive the critic, can we revive the culture of design? • Hybrid writing as critical practice by Limited Language – a poetics of blogging   Final Thoughts: Unfinished processes Bibliography/webography Index of key ideas Full reader credits Image credits