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Art, Design and Technology
Shifts is dedicated to contemporary perspectives on design, visual arts, culture and technological development.
The blog explores how design operates within changing social, technological, and cultural conditions, connecting historical discourse with emerging developments in art, media, branding, and digital transformation.
Shifts brings together theoretical reflection, contemporary observation and interdisciplinary perspectives to examine how design continues to influence the way we perceive, organize and understand complex environments.
Vilém Flusser, Technical Images, and the Aesthetics of Programmed Systems
Contemporary digital design increasingly operates through systems, interfaces, and algorithmic processes rather than fixed visual objects. Revisiting Vilém Flusser’s theory of technical images, this essay examines how contemporary practices by artists and studios such as Defasten, Refik Anadol, Ryoji Ikeda, and Casey Reas reveal a profound cultural shift: from images as representations to images as…
Evelyn Siegmund’s Image Processing
Those who think all the visually stunning and creative artwork in Germany comes from Berlin, Hamburg or Düsseldorf might take a look on Evelyn Siegmund to change their perspective.
Cross-Cultural Anxieties
The antique appearance of the photographs is often at odds with the sharp lines and silky shimmer of the threads. The combined media gives the effect of a dimension where history and future converge. Anzeri’s delicately stitches veil recasts the figure with an uncomfortable modesty, overlaying a past generation’s cross-cultural anxieties with an allusion to our own.
Lee Bul’s Pessimistic Belief In Progress
Lee Bul is considered one of the foremost women artists from Asia to emerge in the international art scene in the 1990s. Her artistic practice represents humanity’s desire for a utopian existence. It’s a desire that is doomed to failure, but it is still driven by humankind’s wanton need for the realization of impossible dreams.
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Designing is not a profession but an attitude … Thinking in relationships.
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Virgile Laguin – Design graphique & Culture visuelle
Virgile Laguin is a graphic designer from Le Havre. He is responsible for the visual communication of the University of Le Havre communication department, while also working as a freelancer for external sponsors: ADBU, La Galerne bookstore, etc. He participates in the organization of Une Saispon Graphique, an annual event focused on contemporary graphic design.
The Reincarnation of Vasarely
A master of color and geometric composition, Andy Gilmore’s work is often characterized as kaleidoscopic and hypnotic, though it could just as well be described as visually acoustic, his often complex arrangements referencing the scales and melodies in music.
Vive Les Graphiquants!
Founded in Paris in 2008, Les Graphiquants is a design agency investigating, exploring, experimenting and drawing signs, transforming clients’ stories into the abstract, the poetic, the graphic, the sensitive, the black and white, sometimes the colour, always the meaning –without forgetting an inimitable dose of peculiarity.
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The essays explore how design operates within larger cultural, technological, and systemic transformations: from Bauhaus, cybernetics, and media theory to AI, generative systems, interfaces, branding, and digital culture.
What interests me most is how systems shape perception, behavior, and meaning today. Especially in a moment where design increasingly moves from creating objects to organizing relationships, environments, and experiences.
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David Marinos – A Contemporary Digital Sculptor
Living between Greece and Bulgaria, the youngin’ has already spent years honing in on his aesthetic, undoubtedly the result of the heritage he shares with the art-historical canon. Unlike the ancient Greeks, however, Marinos sculpts his figures with the slice tool, and paints them in glitched-out neon.
Hello, My Name Is Wendy!
French design duo My Name is Wendy caught my eye with the innovative D/I/M/E/N/S/I/O/N typographic poster series. The studio recently launched a new site showcasing some great new projects that suggest the pair’s Bauhaus-esque graphic approach is going from strength to strength. My Name is wendy was born in 2006 from the collaboration of two independent graphic designers, Carole Gautier and Eugénie Favre.
