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Paper artist Kelli Anderson pushes the boundaries of design, drawing inspiration from legendary Muriel Cooper's innovative approach at MIT to merging information design with technology.————About Muriel CooperMuriel Cooper (1925-1994) was a pioneering graphic designer known for her groundbreaking work in digital design and visual communication. As the first art director of MIT Press, she revolutionized academic publishing with her innovative book designs, including "Learning from Las Vegas." She co-founded the Visible Language Workshop at MIT, which evolved into the MIT Media Lab, where she spearheaded research in computer graphics and user interface design. Cooper's legacy endures through her contributions to integrating design with technology and her advocacy for women in the field. About Kelli AndersonKelli Anderson is an innovative artist, designer, and educator known for her inventive paper engineering and interactive books. With a background in both design and art, she creates works that explore the intersection of art, technology, and everyday objects, often transforming the mundane into the extraordinary. Kelli's notable projects include a functioning paper record player and a pop-up planetarium book, showcasing her ability to merge creativity with technical skill. Her work has been widely recognized and celebrated for its ingenuity and playful approach to design.Instagram: @kelliandersonWebsite: kellianderson.com Sources:Book: Muriel Cooper (Mit Press) by Reinfurt and WiesenbergerEye on Design “Muriel Coopers Visions of a Future”Designer Observer's Podcast episode w/ Michael Beirut & Jessica Helfand"Learning from Muriel Cooper"YouTube, Talks at Google — “Muriel Cooper” by David Reinfurt ____View all the visually rich 1-min reels of each woman on IG below:Instagram: Amber AsayInstagram: Women Designers Pod
Robert Wiesenberger is a curator and historian of modern and contemporary art, design, and architecture. He is currently the Associate Curator of Special Projects at The Clark Art Institute and on the faculty at Williams Graduate Program in Art History. He previously was a curatorial fellow at the Harvard Art Museum where he worked with the Bauhaus collection and co-authored, with David Reinfurt, the 2017 monograph on Muriel Cooper. In this episode, Jarrett and Robert talk about the role of the object in art history, blurring the lines between design and art practices, and teaching design history. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm/171-robert-wiesenberger.
Numbers can be lucky or they can be random. This audio collage channels the spirit of e.e. cummings to travel inside the secret life of numbers to a place where we can all live like the light that kills. Written and Performed by David Clark Sound Design and Mixing by David Clark Includes readings from "Let's Live Suddenly Without Thinking" by e.e. cummings and "A Million Random Digits" by David Reinfurt
Design Notes is a show about creative work and what it teaches us. For the first episode of 2020, Liam speaks with David Reinfurt, founder of O-R-G, half of Dexter Sinister, and author of A *New* Program for Graphic Design. Together they explore the fluid notions of personal, corporate, and graphic identity throughout Reinfurt’s career, the importance of learning through practice, and the relationship between design and art. Subscribe to Design Notes
Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey is a designer, writer, editor, and publisher. He co-founded Dot Dot Dot with Peter Bil'ak in 2000 and began working with David Reinfurt, under the name Dexter Sinister, in 2006. Along with Reinfurt and Angie Keefer, he's the co-founder and publisher of The Serving Library. Late last year, he was appointed Head of Design at the ICA in London. In this conversation, Stuart and I talk about his early design career and working with Richard Hollis, the relationships he sees between design and writing, and how his career is influencing his approach to his new job. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm.
Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey and David Reinfurt focus on the Scott Burton furniture-like objects in a larger group show and use it to consider objects as tools for thinking, the impact of museum display in undoing tensions between form and function, models and fossilized sketches, and the correlation between idea and cost or scale.
David Reinfurt is a design polymath operating at the intersection of design, publishing, curation, and exhibitions. His studio, O-R-G, is now a small software company "that programs, publishes, and sells apps, websites, screensavers, and other small chunks of code". With Stuart Bailey, he's the co-founder of Dexter Sinister and with Bailey and Angie Keefer, he publishes The Serving Library. In July, I interviewed David about his work across mediums and how they intersect, the fluid boundaries of graphic design and the type of writing around design he enjoys the most. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm.
JUNIOR ASPIRIN RADIO SESSION 17: EMPATHYDevised and written by David Reinfurt, compiled and presented by Dan Fox, and produced in the context of 'ALWAYS LIFT INKING ROLLERS WHEN PRESS IS NOT IN OPERATION. IF ROLLERS ARE LEFT TURNING ON THE DRUM THE INK WILL DRY FASTER AND THE ROLLERS WILL BE SUBJECT TO NEEDLESS WEAR' organized by Will Holder at The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada. PODCAST HERE"Things in their alleged places. Things where they think they should be, where they prefer to be. All of the things, just where they are. Things with things of their own. Things obeying no rules, following no orders, filling no prescriptions, looking nowhere for directives. Things with no agendas, no platforms, no purpose. A thing for everything and everything every place, Each and every thing, all over the place. Something, something else, and something else entirely. All together, all the things together make everything there is. And this too, this thing here, is also a thing. This thing is a part of everything else but it doesnt belong to anything. This is simply another additional thing that exists along with all the other things. And that's all there is to it. That's it."How Does It Feel to Feel? - The Creation24 Track Loop - This HeatDoctor My Eyes - Jackson BrowneDo You Know How It Feels to Be Lonesome - Gram Parsons & I.S.B.How Does it Feel? - Spacemen 3Windmills of Your Mind - Noel HarrisonOccasionally - Dan FoxKnown For It - Death GripsCan You Feel It? - Mr FingersI Can't Understand - Pleasure ZoneThings - John S. Hall & KramerOnly Have Eyes for You - The FlamingosBehind the Door - Vernon Green & The MedallionsFriends - Koobas5D - Death GripsThe Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes - The Very ThingsEndless Endless - KraftwerkInsects Are All Around Us - Money MarkYou Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover - Bo DiddleyMy Personal Life - John S. Hall & KramerChicken Pussy - BongwaterAs We Go Along - The Monkees Duke of Earl - Gene ChandlerEarth Angel - The PenguinsStand By Me - Ben E. KingCan't Let Go - Evie SandsHow You Satisfy Me - SpectrumLeading a Double Life - "Blue" Gene Tyranny
This week: Duncan talks to Suart Bailey of Dexter Sinister. Dexter Sinister is the compound name of David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey. David graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1993, Yale University in 1999, and went on to form O-R-G, a design studio in New York City. Stuart graduated from the University of Reading in 1994, the Werkplaats Typografie in 2000, and co-founded the arts journal Dot Dot Dot the same year. David currently teaches at Columbia University and Rhode Island School of Design. Stuart is currently involved in diverse projects at Parsons School of Design (NYC) and Pasadena Art Center (LA). Dexter Sinister recently established a workshop in the basement at 38 Ludlow Street, on the Lower East Side in New York City. The workshop is intended to model a ‘Just-In-Time’ economy of print production, running counter to the contemporary assembly-line realities of large-scale publishing. This involves avoiding waste by working on-demand, utilizing local cheap machinery, considering alternate distribution strategies, and collapsing distinctions of editing, design, production and distribution into one efficient activity. Sarah Crowner became involved with Dexter Sinister in summer 2006. She is a New York-based artist who has made and distributed numerous artists' books and books about art. NEXT: Duncan speaks with Kurt Mueller of Art Lies. NE