James Langdon - A School for Design Fiction

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James Langdon - A School for Design FictionOriginally established by UK designer James Langdon in the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, the itinerant School for Design Fiction deals with the obscure genre of what is termed 'Design Fiction', wherein storytelling becomes the main task of design, exploring the potentialities of artefacts and the character of the culture which produced them. This book documents the curious role of storytelling in design, expanding on the founding of the school

The influence of traditional African architecture on European modernism forms the background for his voluminous spatial installations

Frank Berger has developed a photographic method which can be described as a gesture of insistence

leaving a sourcebook – a bible – for the identification of longing

visual arts and architecture

Marcopoulos – who began his career in New York City assisting Andy Warhol – transplants himself into the intimate lives of people living on the edge

For this publication

this reader comprises some of the most influential published texts about graphic design history

The Undivided City

political cartoons and more open up the project’s outcomes to create a new and dynamic inter-cultural dialogue in Europe

watercolours and silkscreen prints – being shown for the first time in Switzerland in the exhibition State of Mind at Villa Flor in S-chanf

ultimately

The script and stills are assembled from typographical symbols