1 Jan 12
Course introduction
2 Jan 19
Contemporary post-identity design
Discussion:
+ Post-Identity Design: Brands, Politics, and Technological Instability, Federico Pérez Villoro and Christopher Hamamoto
3 Jan 26
Corporate identity systems 1
Discussion:
+ from The Interface, John Harwood. pp 37–57
+ When TV Logos were Physical Objects
Choose case study
4 Feb 2
Into the society of control
Discussion:
+ Postscript on Societies of Control, Gilles Deleuze.
5 Feb 9
The pharmacopornographic life
Discussion:
+ The Gay Science (What is Life?), Sanford Kwinter
+ The Pharmacopornographic Era, Paul B. Preciado
6 Feb 16
Identity Politics, take 1
Discussion:
+ The Combahee River Collective Statement, The Combahee River Collective
+ Identity Politics, Asad Haider
+ Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be Free, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Choose client
7 Feb 23
Gender critique
Discussion:
+ from Gender Trouble, Judith Butler
presentations: Daniel, Emma
8 March 2
first identity sketches due
9 March 9
Speaking of Branding
Discussion:
+ Against Branding: Part One, Part Two, Jason Grant
presentations: Oscar, Malcolm
10 March 16
Postcolonial aesthetics
Discussion:
+ Office of Culture and Design, Walker Art Center Lecture
+ “The Aesthetics of Vulgarity,” from On the Postcolony, Achille Mbembe. pp 102–116.
presentations: Viviana, Emina, Yiran
11 March 23
SPRING BREAK
12 March 30
Afrofutures
Discussion:
+ “Further Thoughts on Afrofuturism,” Kodwo Eshun
second identity sketches due
presentations: Yi, Michael, Viviana
13 April 6
no class (Basel workshop)
14 April 13
Branding, again
Discussion:
+ “The Designer as Brander,” Ruben Pater
presentations: Jiapei, Izze, Emina
15 April 20
studio workshop
16 May 27
Final identity presentations