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This essay is part of Sosolimited's Spaces Series, a collection of writing from the Sosolimited team about spaces that inspire. I love flags because they're one of the only designed objects that should work in an infinite number of spaces.

Design Everything like it's a Flag -...

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Updated 18 days ago

During the debates preceding the Brexit referendum, a video of a hooded and allegedly British individual attempting to burn the EU flag went viral. Accusing the EU of taking away "our [British] nationality, our identity, our free speech, and our sovereignty," the man approaches the star-filled blue flag with a cigarette lighter.

From After Belonging Agency

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Updated a month ago

A guide at the Jasper Johns exhibition at The Broad museum in Los Angeles smiles. Then she urges: "Go look at that one." Brianna MacGillivray points at "Flags," from 1965. The painting is enigmatic, yet direct - much like the artist. He's painted two rectangles on a gray background.

The Flag Still Flies For Jasper Johns

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Updated a month ago

"One of the greatest legacies of the 20th century is not just population explosion or better living standards but vastly raised carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. This flag gives this invisible gas, this international risk, an image, a way to represent itself." John Gerrard

Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017

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Updated 24 days ago

This is an edited transcription of a lecture I gave at Temple University Japan on November 25, 2015. このエッセイの日本語版は こちら です。 Identity design represents a specific refraction of the lens of Modernism  - and it also represents the establishment of systems-based design. In the 1800s, global visual culture was still predominantly driven by Victorian British aesthetics.

Why We Should Really Be Concerned About...

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Updated 24 days ago

On a recent visit to Culver City, California, art historian and activist Carol A. Wells takes me through the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, a 1,700-square-foot space packed to the gills with roughly 90,000 protest posters. The perimeter of the two-room office that makes up the center is

The Radical Design Archive Preserving...

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Updated 6 months ago

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