ZNAK! Ukrainian logotypes. 1910-2019
A research by Ukrainian graphic designers : U.N.A. Collective. Cataloguing, contextualising and reactivating ukrainian corporate trademarks from 1910 to 2019.
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Oleksandr Bliakher, Insurance Company “Storuk” logo draft, Kharkiv, 1988 collectionUkrainian Logotypes, a Collection
The archive gathered and reactivated by U.N.A collective, of Ukrainian logotypes and their design process, from 1910 to 2019.
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Mykola Shtok, Mykhailo Kurdiumov, Valerii Halchenko, Yevhen Taboryskyi, Kharkiv Art and Industrial Institute workshop, 1986 articleGraphic Commission in Kharkiv. Designers' testimonies
The working methods of graphic designers in state institutions in the Soviet era...
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Uliana Bychenkova, Kyiv, 2019 articleReactivated archives
A visual essay on the potential of graphic designers to re-appropriate Ukrainian logo archives.
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Volodymyr Pobiedin, trademark for Kremenchuk Experimental Plant articleVolodymyr Pobiedin, professor, graphic designer and innovator
An exercise in admiration for a leading figure in Ukrainian graphic design and the Kharkiv school.
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Buick Roadmaster Advertising, 1951 lineAs Long as It’s Pink...
Five extracts from historian Penny Sparke’s landmark book on women and design...
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Clark Richert, View of Drop City, The Complex, in El Moro, outside Trinidad, Colorado c. 1966 article“The Whole Earth Catalogue”, the next step for the white man?
How racism and sexism of mainstream America infiltrate counter-culture communities...
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Gustave Courbet, “Les demoiselles du bord de seine”, 1857 articleModernism and mass culture
This famous essay shows the interdependence, rather than antagonism, between fine art and popular visual forms in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Victor Papanek, “Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change”. New York: Pantheon Books, 1971. article“Design for a real world”: the controversy.
This 1973 text by Gui Bonsiepe on Victor Papanek’s “Design for a Real World” opens a polemic between the two designers.
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Dunne & Raby, “Draught Excluder” in domestic setting, “Placebo Project”, 2001 lineA Library of One’s Own
A reading Cabinet with about thirty texts proposed by Problemata researchers
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Le Lincoln Wand, c. 1966 articleA brief archaeology of computers
Optical pencil, sketchpad, shape library... Developments of computers and drawing interfaces between 1950 and 1967.
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Reyner Banham in the Mojave Desert, 1979 articleA Home is not A House: Technical paradoxes of the American House
Founding myths and technological drifts of the American house. One of the major texts by the architectural and design historian Reyner Banham, translated into French for Problemata.
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Bunker Archéologie, photographies n° 157 à 160, Paul Virilio. © Archives du Centre Pompidou articleRetours sur Bunker Archéologie
From December 1975 to February 1976, the exhibition “Bunker Archéologie” was produced by the CCI. It seems to occupy a special place in Paul Virilio’s career.