This course explores three aspects of our identity as graphic designers, connecting them and translating them into “moving posters”:
1. Design is systemic and systematic: “As designers, we think in systems,” says Mitchell Paone (DIA Studio). “We think about motion first and implement it systematically across our work. The aesthetic emerges from the system itself—with infinite variations.”
2. Technology shapes visual aesthetics: Coding is today what the broad nib was in the Renaissance. For Hansje van Halem, design “is more like gaming—what happens if...?” Her collaboration with Just van Rossum for the Lowlands Festival turned out to be a perfect partnership: “I explained my rules, and he developed the typeface system.”
3. Design is political: “Design is political because it intervenes in the world,” writes Friedrich von Borries in To Projectthe World. “The political itself can be a concrete subject of design.”
Originally titled Repetition, Pattern, and Rhythm, this course links systemic, technological, and social dimensions of design through experimental exploration. But the world is falling apart, and posters with moving patterns are not enough to educate people about the importance of democratic conditions and to fight for fundamental rights. We mustget involved and make political posters!