Gabriel Vincent Moon
@gvmoon.bsky.social
Autodidact student of design economy, history and theory
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)
Kenneth Frampton on William Morris
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Kenneth Frampton on William Morris
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)
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)
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)
William Morris - How I Became a Socialist (2020)
July 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
William Morris - How I Became a Socialist (2020)
William Morris on machinery
July 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
William Morris on machinery
Where is the continuity of ideology here if Ruskin wants to return to a chivalric society and Morris wants to advance to a socialist society?
July 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Where is the continuity of ideology here if Ruskin wants to return to a chivalric society and Morris wants to advance to a socialist society?
Arts and Crafts. (1902). Journal of Political Economy, 11(1), 108–111.
July 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Arts and Crafts. (1902). Journal of Political Economy, 11(1), 108–111.
The sustainability discourse of design academics was stillborn because they didn't even begin to theorize what would be politically required for real sustainment.
July 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The sustainability discourse of design academics was stillborn because they didn't even begin to theorize what would be politically required for real sustainment.
Jon Bird, "Art and Design as a Sign System," in Leisure in the Twentieth Century (London: Design Council, 1978), 86-91.
July 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Jon Bird, "Art and Design as a Sign System," in Leisure in the Twentieth Century (London: Design Council, 1978), 86-91.
Why would an Arts and Crafts historian exclude the history of Guild Socialism? Seems weird to stop at William Morris rather than G.D.H. Cole as the culmination of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
July 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Why would an Arts and Crafts historian exclude the history of Guild Socialism? Seems weird to stop at William Morris rather than G.D.H. Cole as the culmination of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Crafts fetishists: Kindly keep William Morris out of your damn mouths unless you are speaking on the difference between Ruskin's medievalism and Morris' socialism. Lumping in Morris with Ruskin because of "Arts and Crafts Movement" is egregious.
June 27, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Crafts fetishists: Kindly keep William Morris out of your damn mouths unless you are speaking on the difference between Ruskin's medievalism and Morris' socialism. Lumping in Morris with Ruskin because of "Arts and Crafts Movement" is egregious.