A manifesto should be a declaration of war against
complacency. At the very least it should trigger thinking.
EXPRESS
Spill your guts for all to see. That’s expression! In
recent years designers have promoted a trend of imposing
personal expression on others through design manifestos.
Not just post-it postcard-size statements about the
wonders of existence, but posters, billboards, and monu-
mental typographic installations with words of wisdom
and observation—some critical others farcical, some
hopeful others cynical. This may have started when in
the 1980s Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer introduced
type and image into their gallery and street ...

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