OUGD601 - Prep for 2nd Tutorial

In preparation for my second tutorial, my tutor has asked me to prepare some key quotes that I anticipate to use in my essay. These quotes will be useful for triangulation as well as providing me with a framework for critical analysis and understanding. I have compiled several documents of quotes which are all highly relevant and topical, however, I had to pick out some of the best for the purpose of the tutorial: 

‘Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localised design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.’

Lupton, E (2010) Thinking With Type, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, p 174

‘In the age of the desktop computer, font design software and page make-up programs, type has acquired a fluidity of physical outline, an ease of manipulation and, potentially, a lack of conceptual boundaries unimaginable only a few years ago.’

Poyner, R. (1991) Typography Now: The Next Wave, Internos Books, London

‘The implosion of traditional typography may, like a sloughed skin, be a sign of renewal, or it may prove to have been a marker of millennial anxiety, profound uncertainty in an accelerating culture, perhaps even long-term decline.’

Poyner R, (1996) Typography Now Two: Implosion, Internos Books, London

‘For Jameson and Derrida, the crisis in representation that characterizes Postmodernity concerns the relations between signifiers and signifieds. In modernist thinking, there is something that authorises or guarantees relations between signifiers and signifieds and so fixes meaning.’

Barnard, M. (2005) Graphic Design as Communication, Routledge, England, p.142

‘Derrida is clearly out to do more than develop new techniques of reading: deconstruction is for him an ultimately political practice, an attempt to dismantle the logic by which a particular system of thought, and behind that a whole system of political structures and social institutions, maintains its force.’

Eagleton, T. (1996) Literary Theory: An Introduction, Wiley-Blackwell, England, p. 128