NEW BLOG, ACTUAL THEME.

Which is, roughly: the intersection of design/visualization and social change.

This blog is dedicated to appreciating and spreading awareness of the innovative products, works of architecture, urban plans, graphics, maps, graphs etc that serve to reinterpret, reconceptualize, and often recreate the world around us.

Inherent in the word "design" is a sense of functionality - design, versus art, has a function. Whether it be an innovation like the advent of the lightbulb or the redrawing of world maps popularized by Western cultures to expose their colonial misinterpretations - progressive design and visualization should be predicated on the idea that change is achieved by rethinking the very systems upon which we operate and the norms which we accept.

Instead of designing products, advertisements or buildings that serve the misguided wants of a mass consumer, temporary culture - designers should use their creative energy to create products, designs, or ways of visualizing the world/concepts/themes that seek to reinterpret the world around us, and that change our perceptions of what solutions are possible for the world's political, social, cultural, environmental problems.