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CAPS LOCK: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and How to Escape from It

Writer
Ruben Pater
Date
2021
Publisher
Valiz
Format
Monographs
ISBN
9789492095817
Genre
Design
Description

On design’s complicity in systems of oppression: critique and exit strategies from the author of The Politics of Design.

Our current economic system could not exist without the number systems, coins, banknotes, documents, advertisements, interfaces, typefaces and information graphics that graphic designers have helped to create. Even speculative design and social design play their part in fueling the economic system. Capitalism has brought tremendous wealth, but it has not done so evenly. Extreme income inequality and environmental destruction is the price future generations have to pay for unbridled economic growth. The question is whether ethical graphic design is even possible under such conditions.

CAPS LOCK uses clear language and visual examples to show how graphic design and capitalism are inextricably linked. By sharing examples of radical design practices that challenge the supremacy of the market, it hopes to inspire a different kind of graphic design.

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