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Distress, Death and Graphic Design

September 21, 2014 By Clare Ultimo

The Urban Outfitter Kent State shirt design. It's almost embarrassing to talk about it. On the one hand, what power could a shirt design have? Shirt designs come and go in seasons, like everything fashionable. New ones pour out of department stores daily. What could have caused one shirt design to get so much flak? Last week, Urban Outfitters released a shirt that became almost immediately controversial, not in a good way. The shirt has the Kent State University logo on it, under what seems to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Design and Commerce, Personal is Political Tagged With: dangerous ideas aiga conference, design activism, design irrelevance, free speech and graphic design, freedom of the press, graphic design and corporatism, graphic design and social relevance, Kent State protest, kent state shirt, sept 2014, social meaning in graphic design, tibor kalman, urban outfitters

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