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J-P Hartnett

Recent articles by J-P Hartnett

Baked inIssue 107, Winter 2025
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                                            Its ethical problems may be nothing new, but as ‘AI’ invades graphic designers’ workspaces, its excessive energy consumption, resource extraction and exploitation of creative labour need tackling head on. By J. P. Hartnett            
Ecological literacyIssue 105, Autumn 2023
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                                                The result of a decade spent ‘formulating a stronger ecological theory for design’, Joanna Boehnert’s…                        
Crisis by designIssue 102, Autumn 2021
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Editors Tony Fry and Adam Nocek present Design in Crisis as part of an ‘ongoing conversation that aims to challenge how designers engage with the planetary crises …
Read and destroyIssue 101, Summer 2021
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                                                Art and design pedagogy is generally agreed today on the imperative for educators to facilitate independent…                        
Space Type GeneratorIssue 100, Summer 2020
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	Kiel Mutschelknaus’s constantly evolving Space Type Generator has the power to hypnotise            
Chloe Scheffe: Rethinking editorial designIssue 100, Summer 2020
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	Brooklyn-based Chloe Scheffe designs books by groundbreaking thinkers and tackles magazines with a similarly radical approach            
Spassky Fischer: Concrete movesIssue 100, Summer 2020
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	The work of this prolific young French studio is founded on practicality and systems, while transcending such prosaic methods             
In search of dialogueIssue 99, Autumn 2019
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                                                The Design Observer (DO) blog was launched in 2003 by William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand, Michael…                        
A new world of worldsIssue 99, Autumn 2019
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                                                ‘What would it take to construct a non-Eurocentric design imagination?’ This is the stark question…                        
Attitudinal angleIssue 97, Autumn 2018
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                                                We live in an ‘extraordinarily turbulent, often perilous time when we face changes of unprecedented…                        
Paper trail of a digital pioneerIssue 96, Spring 2018
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                                                The publication of Muriel Cooper will be a cause for celebration among many readers of…                        
The programmed designerIssue 94, Summer 2017
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	Industry-standard tools – Apple computers, Adobe software – have created astonishing new possibilities for graphic designers. But is this liberation, or a new kind of imprisonment?            
Thesis & antithesis & synthesis (& EJ)Issue 92, Summer 2016
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                                                There are few high-profile ‘traditional’ graphic design studios whose members discuss their work in such…                        
Killing joke at the expense of historyIssue 91, Spring 2016
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	Swissted’s typographic homages turn Modernist design history into hollow commodities for a new ‘blank generation’            