Writing as a “mirror” of thought
How does writing transform the way we think? A new episode of Scripto in which writing emerges as a “mirror stage” of language, allowing thought to see itself, reflect on itself, and analyze itself…
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Ilan Sefirot, “Card of the Kabbalistic Divinity”, detail, Amsterdam, 18th century articleScripto. A Sacred Sign
This episode offers a fresh take on the connection between writing and various figures, whether mythological or symbolic. Athena with her tablet, the Golem, the Book of the Dead and the glyphs of Palenque, amongst others, intersect and engage with one another.
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John Evans, “The tragical death of a Apple-Pye: who was cut in pieces and eat by twenty-five gentlemen: with whom all little people ought to be very well acquainted”, London, ca. 1800 articleScripto. The table, the list
Before the book, before the sentence, even before the word, there is the list. In this seventh episode of Scripto, Thierry Chancogne traces the very earliest forms of writing, from Mesopotamian clay tablets to children’s ABC books; the tabular form emerges as the foundational act of all recorded thought. Naming, classifying, ordering. To write is, first and foremost, to take inventory of the world.
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Ocupy Boise,, Idaho, wednesday october 5, 2011, AP Photo/Darin Oswald lineDesign politics
Is design political even before it raises political questions? Where we understand that design and conception are not simply about creating/generating an object, a service or an experience...
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Julien Prévieux, « Pour Lana », 2018 collectionScripto: the series in pictures...
Behind this history of graphic design before the modern era lies a rich, diverse and inspiring collection of resources... Explore the series Scripto in pictures...
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Sri Yantra, Rajasthan, painting from the late 18th century articleGinsberg & Sottsass: operational exchanges
Through a fruitful dialogue between the poet's work and that of the designer, an ‘eccentric’ functionality emerges, which breaks free from functionalism while sublimating it.
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Theodor W. Adorno, detail, n.d. articleAdorno, functionalism and modernity
Thinking about functionalism with Theodor W. Adorno in the age of consumerism. A re-reading of the 1965 text by the Frankfurt School philosopher: ‘On Some Problems of Functionalism Today.’
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Simone C. Niquille/Technoflesh, Safety Measures, 2018 articleOn the fabrication of evidence...
Modelling tools to establish evidence in legal or political contexts... An interview with Simone Niquile and Francesco Sebregondi on the ‘design of truth’.
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Cora T. Walker, photo: Mike Lien, 1969 articleA plea for the people of Harlem
A little-known and important speech from the famous year when Aspen went off the rails... Cora T. Walker, a black lawyer, spoke to an audience of designers about living conditions in the Harlem ghetto.
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D. Carter, M. Geerits, A. Gouillart, E. Malliaraki, peccary equipped with a biomarker Augmented Nature, 2018 articleDesigning the Wild!
The essay questions the possibility of ecosystem design, the lasting impact of social constructions of nature, and the role of technological intervention.
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Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 lineScripto. A history of graphic design before modernity,
By Thierry Chancogne. This series will explore writing from the perspective of the most diverse materials that author has encountered – artistic, technical, ethological, anthropological, psychological, archaeological, etc. – with the new era of the emergence of writing.
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Stéphane Mallarmé, Un coup de dé jamais n’abolira le hasard, first edition, Nouvelle Revue française, 1914 articleOn the transformation of the written word
In a short text, Walter Benjamin examines the effect of advertising on writing...
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Advertisement of a German central heating manufacturer, 1903 articleUnder the floor... central heating
Anthropologist Irene Cieraad points to the invisibilisation phenomena at work in urban housing.
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Bernhard Riff and Franz West, Gedanken zu einer neuen Heimatkunst, photograms, 2000 articleDid you say Passstücke?
A rereading of the work of the artist Franz West and his Passstücke by Nicolas Bourriaud.
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Martino Gamper, Total Trattoria, The Aram Gallery, London, 2008 articleAt the table with Martino Gamper
In this interview, the designer talks with Emily King, Kai von Rabenau and other friends...
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The first Watermark workshop, founded in 1973, United States. articleThe death of the book? An opposing narrative
From his parent‘s bookbinding workshop to the production of his own books, artist Oscar Tuazon examines the way books are conceived.
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“Forty per cent" car, advert on the Revolico website, 2012 articleRevolico! From the big mess to the art of resourcefulness
Hybrid cars and technological disobedience in Cuba
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Jean Widmer, “Vallée de Chevreuse” animation panels on the A10, photographic record 1986 articleIn the backstage with Jean Widmer
An exclusive interview with the graphic designer, conducted by director Seb Coupy during the filming of the documentary “L'image qu'on s'en fait” (2019).
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Julien Magre, Troubles, 2014 articleFrom movement to action
With philosopher Joëlle Zask, an aesthetic journey?
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George Nelson, still film from “Requiem”, 1960 lineAutocritique. A biography of the automobile object
The new line of Problemata, to be read by the fireside...
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John Powers Severin dit John Severin, « L’incroyable Hulk», Marvel Comics, entre 1967 et 1989 articleScripto! First episode...
Now it's time for introductions... A modest anti-method of anachronism, discontinuity and divergence to address, through various connections between the written word and its undoubtedly extremely heterogeneous age.
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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 Lesniak. Corporate identity for 50 years of Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology 1978. lineZNAK! 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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Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, still, 2019. Directed by Céline Sciamma, director of photography: Claire Mathon article“Yesterday’s future”
Based on Judy Attfield‘s ’FORM/female FOLLOWS FUNCTION/male’, a reflection on geographical and cultural relationships to writing, ‘studies’ and historical studies.
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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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Cornel Windlin, Die Spezialisten, 2000 articleEither a conceptual x...
The practice of the Swiss graphic designer Cornel Windlin in the light of the Dada movement and the very figure of Georges Maciunas (Fluxus).
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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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Les Immatériaux (1985), commissariat Jean-François Lyotard. © Bibliothèque Kandinsky, MNAM/CCI, Centre Pompidou – Dist. RMN-Grand Palais collectionLes inconnues du CCI
Bunker Archéologie (1975), Les Immatériaux (1985) sont des expositions célèbres. Qui sait qu’elles furent portées par le CCI ? Voir les images de la collection du site.