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« A Critique of Critiques of Blandification »

by Marcus Leis Allion

↳ https://www.nan.xyz/txt/a-critique-of-critiques-of-blandification/

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Quote by Janes Turrell.

Drawing/Lettering/Typeface by Marcus Leis Allion

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The law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

But leaves the greater villain loose

Who steals the common from the goose.

The law demands that we atone

When we take things we do not own

But leaves the lords and ladies fine

Who take things that are yours and mine.

The poor and wretched don’t escape

If they conspire the law to break;

This must be so but they endure

Those who conspire to make the law.

The law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

And geese will still a common lack

Till they go and steal it back.

Stealing the Common

A seventeenth century folk poem against the English enclosure movement – the process of fencing off common land and turning it into private property. Author: unknown.

Typeface: Viggo by graduating Kingston BA graphic design student → Addi Copas ← @udenlandsk

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N. Katherine Hayles A Computer’s Worldview Royal College of Art 26 May 2018 Talk, Poster and Pearl Typeface by Marcus Leis Allion

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UT Prism

A wip typeface by Marcus Leis Allion

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@ Thoughtfully (James, Chris & Stuart) and James Corazzo – Design Tutor

Firstly, simply setting educational institutions in binary opposition to the ‘real world’ would be a simplistic and reactionary strategy (and one that would be defined by the very parameters under attack). Contra to such a stumbling, duelling, duality I want to present universities as privileged institutional sites that, while residing in the world, are capable of resisting it.

Secondly, I am not denouncing the domain of production but the control mechanisms that order the relations of production. Commercial practice exists primarily as a domain of intensity that demands efficiency, assurance, expertise, etcetera—in short a professionalism. However the search for alterity often requires contemplation that models of efficiency destroy. Therefore, the inherent danger in introducing the demands of intensity into the arena of reflexivity is the former dominates the latter.

Thirdly, this critique is not directly concerned with the appearance of particular instances (although it is possible to link dispersed practices to indicate an emerging trend), such as your own, but with the lack of critical analysis of such practices. This prodding seeks to locate the points assumption and subjective assertion in order to open up a finality.

Thus, if we are all concerned to develop the students ‘initiative, altruism, flexibility, relationships, independence and crucially confidence’ then, I would argue, there are other partnerships that would prove much more challenging and invigorating for all concerned. This would simply entail the replacement of vocational practices with professions from outside the sphere of design that would challenge the student’s creativity and offer the opportunity for new communicative and creative models and practices to emerge. The encounter demands the development of the student’s communicative capabilities and integrates them in relations that may not understand, care for or appreciate design. Placing non-commercial clients of design into the universities provides a platform in which design can inform others practices of its particular qualities, but design/ers (students and staff) are in turn also informed by other thoughts, ways, methods, and practices. This shift in relations would be radical and challenge the self-affirming repeating pattern that ensnares much design. By redirecting the object of concern away from itself, the positive aspects of your initiative would resonate far deeper and have transformatory effects beyond the remit of a design practice.

My argument then is not an affirmation of the necessity of division but rather a concern with the placement of particular forces. That is a care for the organisation, distribution, and direction of the thoughts and practices that determine our realities. Thus, my position is not organised against ‘ecologies of collaboration’ but rather the effects that such relations have in defining the field of possible actions and for critical reflection upon such alliances. I am arguing for the defence of a space and a time that can close all too quickly once students leave university. To introduce that closure into the university only makes sense if universities are concerned with reproducing practices and not producing challenges.

Walls in themselves then are not inherently negative, but are positioned to have particular effects. Perforation then is a tool we can employ to introduce transference, but equally we would need to recognise the moments where we need to reinforce the barricades.

Marcus Leis Allion, 2009

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/june/the-thoughtful-six

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Region set in UT Plunder

Marcus Leis Allion

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Papercut a wip typeface/identity by Marcus Leis Allion

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Hegel was born on this day 250 years ago. https://t.co/kiaJG5SxQd

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Typography

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TyPrograms: The Shaped Typography of Computer Programs, a short article by Marcus Leis Allion.

Typeface: NaN Weiss by Luke Prowse

↳ nan.xyz/txt/typrograms

ht: Luke Prowse (NaN) and David M. Berry

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PRIVATE an alphabet by Marcus Leis Allion. Each letter is made from screenshots of instagram’s filter interface.

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wip Typeface design by Marcus Leis Allion

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PREDICT is a work in progress typeface by Marcus Leis Allion that forms part of an ongoing series of designs exploring computational aesthetics.

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Phänomen a wip typeface by Marcus Leis Allion

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Probe a work in progress typeface by Marcus Leis Allion

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“As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action” – Shoshana Zuboff

Probe a wip typeface by Marcus Leis Allion.