Good Formalism

 27th August 2021 at 11:49pm
Word Count: 107

We judge graphic design using visual criteria for "formal goodness" or "beauty" from the systems we must be critical of.

The principles of "good" modernist design are so embedded in culture that they are the principles of "good" graphic designing.

— Jerome Harris

Contemporary formal goodness evolved from late 19th through mid-20th centuries western art traditions. The formal concepts of Modernist Capitalism do not so far seem to lead to all life flourishing (it's usually the opposite!).

What new criteria for formal goodness or "beauty" are necessary for Sustainable designs!?

(And, if a modern design is made by modernists, then sustainable design is made by sustainabilitists?)

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