Pierre Bernard, co-founder of Grapus and Atelier de Création Graphique, delivered the lecture The Social Role of the Graphic Designer in Minneapolis in 1991. It was reprinted in Essays on Design I: AGI’s Designers of Influence, London 1997.
The Social Role of the Graphic Designer
Also in this collection
The Arts and Crafts of Today
Bauhaus Manifesto
Time and Place
Design as Art
The First Things First manifesto
The Social Role of the Graphic Designer
There is such a thing as society
The Designer as Producer
Research and Destroy
Partager le regard
The Style of the Stedelijk
First Things First 2000
The freedom of the designer
Entreprecariat
Vak in beweging
Also in this room
1. The Arts and Crafts of To-day: a moral framework for art and society
2. Bauhaus: giving shape to the spirit of the new times
3. Composition of Time and Place: the indestructible world of the craftsman
4. Design as Art: restoring contact between art and the public
5. First Things First: the all-powerful lure of advertising
6. The Social Role of the Graphic Designer
7. There is such a thing as society: shadow over graphic design’s role in society
8. Graphic designer as producer: taking charge of content and function
9. Research and Destroy: generating your own meaning from your own resources
10. Partager le Regard: an antidote for division and fragmentation
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