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Film Studio

Posted on September 30, 2013 by eglickfeld

This article on the use of online video in design was first published in the September 2013 issue of Frieze magazine. When the Amsterdam-based designer Siba Sahabi released a new collection of handmade carafes, urns and cups earlier this year, … Continue reading →

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Ron Gilad

Posted on June 30, 2013 by eglickfeld

This profile of industrial designer, Ron Gilad, was first published on the website of Disegno magazine, disegnodaily.com, in June 2013. Ron Gilad is most at home with a pencil and the A4 paper he draws on. These basic tools of creative … Continue reading →

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More than a Gender

Posted on June 27, 2013 by eglickfeld

  This review of Women in Graphic Design: 1890–2012 edited by Gerda Breuer and Julia Meer (Jovis, Berlin, 2012, 608pp.) was first published in Eye magazine no. 85, vol. 21 2013. ‘I never set out to be the only woman blah-blah,’ insists Paula … Continue reading →

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A User’s Guide to Oxymoronic Machines

Posted on June 29, 2012 by eglickfeld

This essay was published as a series of captioned images which were interspersed throughout Useless, an anthology of essays published by the first graduating class in Critical Writing in Art and Design from the Royal College of Art, London. The … Continue reading →

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Set in Stone

Posted on November 29, 2011 by eglickfeld

This essay was written as part of a workshop entitled ‘Writing London’ during my candidacy for a Masters degree in Critical Writing in Art and Design at the Royal College of Art in 2011. In 1985 a Canadian man named … Continue reading →

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Fluorescent Highlights

Posted on September 1, 2011 by eglickfeld

An abridged version of this essay appeared on Disegno magazine’s website in 2011. Photograph by Max Creasy from the series Constructed Forms (2011). One can tell an analogue human activity has become second nature when designers try to simulate it in the digital world. … Continue reading →

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On Logophobia

Posted on July 29, 2010 by eglickfeld

This essay was first published in Meanjin Quarterly vol. 69 no. 3 in 2010. In July 2009, the state of Victoria held the annual State of Design Festival. The festival is a ten day celebration of local design, an initiative … Continue reading →

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