workshop with pixelgarten

While we were still searching for the right thing we took part on a workshop with Pixelgarten. We had a great time hanging around with Catrin and Adrian of Pixelgarten

Photos shot by Adrian.

Here the final result:

struggling and failing and failing and failing again

Weeks have passed and we’re still struggling with our concept, because we don’t have any! We bought a lot of stuff burned it, dropped it into water, piled it, mixed it, etc. just to see what happens and if we get inspired somehow. It was hella fun doing this and we had our “oohs-” and “aahs-” moments, but everything was far away from communicating a symposium about authorship in design. Here you can see some impressions of our failing …

brainstorming … what is an authorship in design?

It all started with a chaotic scenario of brainstorming, defining the phrase authorship in design. At the end we found five different kind of authors in design:

1. the social critic (der Gesellschaftskritiker)

2. the developer of mulitmedia-based tools (der Entwickler multimedialer Werkzeuge)

3. the design theoretical reflecting author (der designtheoretisch reflektierender Autor)

4. the meaningful teller (der sinnstiftender Erzähler)

5. the visual researcher (der visueller Forscher)

In the second step we tried to find pictures which match to the words on our map.

the mission

On the 20. – 21. November 2009 we will have our third international translations symposium which is concerned with the self image of the communication designer and his role in society. So the translations 03 is all about authorship in design.

In summer 2009 we participated on a seminar where design students were searching and designing the graphical appearance of our third translations symposium. We decided to create this blog to record the process of our ideas and our designs.