Informal reading is a selection of texts compiled to investigate the practice of design. Each series seeks to spur further dialogue and critical thinking within the education and practice of design — amongst students, educators, professionals, or anyone interested in design’s larger socio-political context and impact.
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Informal Reading

Informal reading is a selection of texts compiled to investigate the practice of design. Each series seeks to spur further dialogue and critical thinking within the educaiton and practice of design — amongst students, educators, professionals, or anyone interested in design’s larger socio-political context and impact.

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Preface
First Things First. Or Not?
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Introduction text to Series 01: First Things First. Or Not?
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First Things First
1964
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By Ken Garland along with 20 other designers, photographers and students
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First Things First
2000
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The First Things First Manifesto 1964 was renewed with an aim call for a change of priorities as well as to stimulate discussion in all areas of visual communication – in education, in practice, in the organisations that represent design’s aspirations and aims – as well as outside design. The changing relationship of advertising, graphic design, commerce and culture poses some profound questions and dilemmas that have recently been overlooked.
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First Things First
Revisited
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By Rick Poynor. This article was first published in 1999 in Emigre 51.
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First Things First / Our Things First?
On a Parochial Manifesto by Sated Professionals
By Jan Michl. Original article published at Jan Michl’s website on October 17, 2006 with several minor changes made on February 4, 2009
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There is such a thing as Society
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Andrew Howard, 1994
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First Things First
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Jon Tan, 2010
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Last Things Last
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Ken Garland, 2012
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First Things First
2014
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Cole Peters, 2014
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First Things First
2020
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Updated 2020 text co-written by Marc O’Brien, Namita Dharia, Ben Gaydos, with the help of Sarah Harrison, Julia Yezbick, Karen Stein Shanley, Rachel Cellinese, and Rich Binell.
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Afterword
First Things First. Or Not?
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Candice Ng, 2018
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