Gabriel Vincent Moon
@gvmoon.bsky.social
Autodidact student of design economy, history and theory
Pinned
Jon Bird, "Art and Design as a Sign System," in Leisure in the Twentieth Century (London: Design Council, 1978), 86-91.
Manfredo Tafuri on the Bauhaus and industrial design from Architecture and Utopia (1976)
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Manfredo Tafuri on the Bauhaus and industrial design from Architecture and Utopia (1976)
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Design exists in a sick domain of capital facilitation, which gives no agency to the practitioner to determine designs. This is the main thing, and someone needs to do a Lacanian analysis of the sort of virtuous psychic mode designers inhabit as a result of this fundamental contradiction.
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Design exists in a sick domain of capital facilitation, which gives no agency to the practitioner to determine designs. This is the main thing, and someone needs to do a Lacanian analysis of the sort of virtuous psychic mode designers inhabit as a result of this fundamental contradiction.
What is bourgeois design culture? And is it separate from proletariat design culture? Is there proletariat design culture?
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
What is bourgeois design culture? And is it separate from proletariat design culture? Is there proletariat design culture?
Kenneth Frampton on William Morris
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Kenneth Frampton on William Morris
For real though, who has read Clive Dilnot's State of Design History? I know there are a lot of Design Issues, but is there any critique or engagement with the founding texts?
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
For real though, who has read Clive Dilnot's State of Design History? I know there are a lot of Design Issues, but is there any critique or engagement with the founding texts?
Clive Dilnot - The State of Design History, Part II: Problems and Possibilities (1984)
The State of Design History, Part II: Problems and Possibilities on JSTOR
Clive Dilnot, The State of Design History, Part II: Problems and Possibilities, Design Issues, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Autumn, 1984), pp. 3-20
www.jstor.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Clive Dilnot - The State of Design History, Part II: Problems and Possibilities (1984)
Clive Dilnot - Is there an ethical role for the history of design? Redeeming through history the possibility of a humane world (2014)
Is there an ethical role for the history of design? Redeeming through history the possibility of a humane world
What follows is not the abstract or even the basis of the talk that I will give in Aveiro so much as a sketching out, in the form of an extended working paper, of the ethical basis from which I would ...
www.academia.edu
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Clive Dilnot - Is there an ethical role for the history of design? Redeeming through history the possibility of a humane world (2014)
A few things for further thought: Designers' tendency to fetishize crafts/objects/commodities. Morris' medievalism in reaction to industrialization. Morris' class position as a means and opportunity to produce art objects.
William Morris and the Ideal Book – PRINT Magazine
Michael John Goodman on William Morris' masterwork and how the artist's design philosophy enabled us to see books differently.
www.printmag.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A few things for further thought: Designers' tendency to fetishize crafts/objects/commodities. Morris' medievalism in reaction to industrialization. Morris' class position as a means and opportunity to produce art objects.
Arindam Dutta - The Political Economy of Theory (2014)
architecture.mit.edu
October 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Arindam Dutta - The Political Economy of Theory (2014)
Gui Bonsiepe - Convergences/Divergences: Hannes Meyer and the HfG Ulm (2018)
October 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Gui Bonsiepe - Convergences/Divergences: Hannes Meyer and the HfG Ulm (2018)
I appreciated the focus on the political economy of design in Teasley's Designing Modern Japan.
October 13, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I appreciated the focus on the political economy of design in Teasley's Designing Modern Japan.
The Systemic Design Festival: Makers of Confusion
October 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Systemic Design Festival: Makers of Confusion
Gui Bonsiepe - Design: From Material to Digital and Back (1992)
October 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Gui Bonsiepe - Design: From Material to Digital and Back (1992)
Gui Bonsiepe - The Disobedience of Design (2022)
October 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Gui Bonsiepe - The Disobedience of Design (2022)
Listening to Design Observer podcast: The host is interviewing "Responsible AI" designers from Microsoft etc and their utterances are slop. Likely the theory/practice problem, but damn is it frustrating to hear design leaders mention ethics as some side aspiration to be vaguely gestured to.
October 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Listening to Design Observer podcast: The host is interviewing "Responsible AI" designers from Microsoft etc and their utterances are slop. Likely the theory/practice problem, but damn is it frustrating to hear design leaders mention ethics as some side aspiration to be vaguely gestured to.
Sarah Teasley on market expansion for Western furniture in Designing Modern Japan (2022)
September 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Sarah Teasley on market expansion for Western furniture in Designing Modern Japan (2022)
Since Ivy Lee, corporate propaganda (PR) was recontextualized as advertising, brand identity, etc for psychic justification of morally unjustifiable professions. Today’s myth of the agency of design alone to form social good persists as cope.
September 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Since Ivy Lee, corporate propaganda (PR) was recontextualized as advertising, brand identity, etc for psychic justification of morally unjustifiable professions. Today’s myth of the agency of design alone to form social good persists as cope.
Dario Gaggio - In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns (2007)
August 26, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Dario Gaggio - In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns (2007)
Arts and Crafts Movement historiography trivializes William Morris as a mere designer of pleasant wallpaper, when he should be understood foremost as a political agitator for the emancipation of the working class — upon which the dignity of craft labor would ultimately be predicated.
July 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Arts and Crafts Movement historiography trivializes William Morris as a mere designer of pleasant wallpaper, when he should be understood foremost as a political agitator for the emancipation of the working class — upon which the dignity of craft labor would ultimately be predicated.
William Morris - How I Became a Socialist (2020)
July 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
William Morris - How I Became a Socialist (2020)