Young, hungry, interdisciplinary designers and artists are teaming together in small packs to tackle personal and client projects, while bucking old world views of authorship and agency-based assembly line production. Armed with cheap gear and accessible programs, they can design anything for anyone, wearing their voice proudly on their sleeves. Authors/designers/faculty ras+ethemselves a small, interdisciplinary teamexplore this collaborative landscape with an overt sense of humor, original illustrations, custom typography, dozens of Q+As with a diverse range of contemporary practitioners, and buckets of bright red ink (0, 100, 100, 0). Because design theory needs an imp, this collection of accessible essays and tightly curated Q+As refuses to bore.

Herrmann, Elizabeth, author; Shelley, Ryan, author

Amsterdam: BIS Publishers

Laurence King Publishing

BIS Publishers BV

Netherlands, Netherlands

Amsterdam, 2015

Cut-off text on some pages due to tight binding.

239 pages : 24 cm
"A field once dominated by assembly line and one-stop agencies, design (and graphic design especially) has harnessed modern tech to produce a new working model of small, interdisciplinary, voice-heavy collaboratives. CO LAB offers a set of contextual essays on facets of collaboration, accompanied by original drawings from the punkish designer/ author/faculty collaborative ras+e, and concludes with a highly diverse group of case study interviews. Channeling Kurt Vonnegut, Jello Biafra, and Ellen Lupton, ras+e build a detailed case for the advantages of interdisciplinary design in a team context as a reflection of contemporary views of authorship, accessibility of tools, and a plethora of hungry, young makers with startup role models. The rhythmic and relatable writing of the authors, coupled with the extreme diversity of their Q+As, aims to inspire both the students ras+e know so well, and designosaurs looking for a new way of working"--Publisher's website
"Designed, written, illustrated, and edited by Elizabeth Herrmann and Ryan Shelley (ras+e)"--Front cover flap
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-239)
Collaboration culture -- Case studies

The object of CO LAB: is to promote the ideals and methods of contemporary design collaboration by informing on cultural context, surveying some unexpected practitioners, and highlighting techniques and practices that apply to studio work and forward-thinking education initiatives.

2023-06-28