CAPS LOCK: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and How to Escape from It
Paperback
8.4 x 11 cm
552 pages
By Ruben Pater
Published by Valiz
2021
Published by Valiz
2021
On design’s complicity in systems of oppression: critique and exit strategies from the author of The Politics of Design
Capitalism could not exist without the coins, notes, documents, graphics, interfaces, branding and advertisements; artefacts that have been (partly) created by graphic designers. Even anti-consumerist strategies such as social design and speculative design are being appropriated within capitalist societies to serve economic growth. It seems that design is locked in a system of exploitation and profit, a cycle that fosters inequality and the depletion of natural resources.
Capitalism could not exist without the coins, notes, documents, graphics, interfaces, branding and advertisements; artefacts that have been (partly) created by graphic designers. Even anti-consumerist strategies such as social design and speculative design are being appropriated within capitalist societies to serve economic growth. It seems that design is locked in a system of exploitation and profit, a cycle that fosters inequality and the depletion of natural resources.
