This magic is design's most important effect. Designers are indeed the masters of simplification. Their task is to reduce complexity in such a way that the user surface offers us a meaningful image
Can the cinema show images beyond the cinema? According to Norbert Bolz, the most recent works of Peter Greenaway and Wim Wenders document a spectacularly changed materiality of the film: the...
Now that the digital revolution is turning everything into surface and the things with which we interact are becoming increasingly immaterial and turning into black boxes, not only do established...
Mundus vult decipi, goes an old moralistic saying: the world wants to be deceived. This is especially valid today. We could hark back to Nietzsche: bring on the beautiful illusions. Yet simulacra, as...