Library of Readings & Essays (LoR/E)

LoR/E is a project that has been influenced, most of all, by the graphic designers and (design) writers of our time—notably: Daniel van der Velden, Will Holder, Stuart Bailey, Robin Kinross, Anthony Froshaug—who have implicitly and explicitly advocated for the importance of reading and personal research, for the pursuit of knowledge (both design-related and not), and, generally speaking, for the broadening of a designer’s repertoire to include skills beyond those related to the visual and the aesthetic. As such—and in reaction to a particular culture of designers who, whether in their role as designers or as readers, focus increasingly less on textual content in favor of the visual—LoR/E promotes an appreciation for language and intellectually-inclined content…The objective of LoR/E is to provide designers and other interested individuals with access to a dynamic and comprehensive resource that encourages said users: to further seek out the listed readings and essays themselves; to initiate their own research or investigation of any number of the expansive and (often) interrelated topics and subject matters and; to incite a general spirit of discovery via browsing…

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