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The Poster Remediated

Extracts from a longer essay exploring the future of the poster which will be published in Warsaw in June 2016 … More

advertising, graphic design, posters, public space

Machines Should Work, People Should Think

IBM commissioned Jim Henson, later the hand behind the Muppets, to make a film promoting the MT/ST, an early word … More

advertising, Henson, IBM, labour saving device

Personal Search

Here is a discussion of an undeservedly obscure Polish film, Rewizja Osobista / Personal Search, 1972. It was commissioned by the … More

advertising, Communism, consumerism, Godard, Kostenko, Leszczyński

Living books

Marx famously announced that commodities have the uncanny quality of seeming to be alive. He pointed this out in a … More

advertising, commodity fetish, Marx

This is a notebook and an archive. I use this blog to sketch thoughts into words and to post articles and reviews already in print which are difficult to source or in translation. If you are interested to look further, you'll mostly find writing on graphic design and/or Eastern Europe here. You'll need to scroll down the page. There are some downloads and links in the menu above.

- David

You can email me at crowleyd[at]staff.ncad.ie

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