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  • Mieke Gerritzen, Geert Lovink, Minke…

    I Read Where I Am. Exploring New Information Cultures

  • Matt Mullican

    Notating the Cosmology 1973-2008

  • A. Fernández Per, J. Mozas, J. Arpa

    This is Hybrid. An analysis of mixed-use buildings by a+t

  • Arno Brandlhuber, Silvan Linden (Hg.)

    Disko 20-25 Architektur ohne Architektur

  • Craig Buckley, Jean-Louis Violeau (Hg.)

    Utopie. Texts and Projects, 1967–1978

  • Anne König, Paul Feigelfeld (Hg.)

    LIGNA. An Alle! Radio Theater Stadt

  • Jürgen Krusche, Günther Vogt

    Strassenräume in Berlin, Shanghai, Tokyo, Zürich. Eine foto…

  • Wim Crouwel

    A Graphic Odyssey - Catalogue

  • David Ake

    Source. Music of the Avant-garde, 1966 - 1973

  • Murray Grigor

    Infinite Space. Der Architekt John Launter. DVD

  • Yona Friedman

    Architecture with the People, by the People

  • Erik Swyngedouw

    Civic City Cahier 5. Designing the Post-Political City and…

  • Lars Lerup

    One Million Acres & No Zoning

  • Toyo Ito

    Tarzans in the Media Forest

  • M, Kelley, J. Shaw, Niagara, C, Loren

    Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976-1979

  • Ntone Edjabe, Edgar Pieterse (Hg.)

    African Cities Reader II. Mobilities & Fixtures

  • M. Hlavajova, S. Sheikh, J. Winder (Hg.)

    On Horizons. A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art

  • Michael Sorkin

    All Over the Map. Writing on Buildings and Cities

  • Nadine Barth (Hg.)

    German Fashion Design 1946-2012

  • Simon Reynolds

    Retromania. Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past

  • Stan Allen, Marc McQuade (Hg.)

    Landform Building

  • Fredric Jameson

    Representing Capital. A Reading of Volume One

  • Magdalena Taube, Krystian Woznicki (Hg.)

    Modell Autodidakt

  • e-flux journal

    Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the…

  • PIE Books (Hg.)

    Paper & Cloth. Ready-to-Use Background Patterns(+DVD)

  • McKenzie Wark

    The Beach Beneath the Street. The Everyday Life and…

  • Pedro Barateiro, Ricardo Valentim (Hg.)

    Activity (is to a group what content is to platform)

  • El Croquis 155

    Sanaa 2008-2011

  • Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon…

    Pioneers of the Downtown Scene

  • Curtis, Rees, White, Ball (Hg.)

    Expanded Cinema. Art, Performance, Film

  • Kaminer, Robles-Dúran, Sohn (Hg.)

    Urban Asymmetries

  • Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann

    Die Macht der Erkenntnis

  • Hans Ulrich Obrist

    Ai Weiwei Speaks

  • Abel, Evers, Klaasen, Troxler (Hg.)

    Open Design Now. (why design cannot remain exclusive)

  • AA Bronson, Peter Hobbs

    Queer Spirits

  • Momus

    Solution 214-238. The Book of Japans

  • A. Avanessian, L. Skrebowski (Hg.)

    Contemporary Art and Aesthetics

  • 2G N. 57

    Njiric+ Architekti

  • Lucia Nagib

    World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism

  • Huda Smitshuijzen, Abi Fares (Hg.)

    Typographic Matchmaking in the City

  • H. F. Mallgrave, D. Goodman

    An Introduction to Architectural Theory. 1968 to the Present

  • D. Mertins, M. W. Jennings (Hg.)

    G: An Avant-Garde Journal of Art, Architecture, Design and…

  • Alexander Bolton

    Alexander McQueen. Savage Beauty

  • Marc Barbey (Hg.)

    Hommage à Berlin. Photographien

  • Jianping He (Hg.)

    Book Worm

  • Claire Doherty, Paul O'Neill (Hg.)

    Locating the Producers. Durational Approaches to Public Art

  • Professur Theorie und Geschichte der…

    Architecture in the Age of Empire / Architektur der neuen…

  • Garth A. Myers

    African Cities. Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and…

  • Jean-Louis Cohen

    Architecture in Uniform. Designing and Building for the 2nd…

  • Christopher Dell

    Replaycity. Improvisation als urbane Praxis

  • Hans Dickel, Lisa Puyplat (Hg.)

    Reading Susanne Kriemann

  • Byung-Chul Han

    Shanzhai. Dekonstruktion auf Chinesisch

  • Kaoru Takahashi (Hg.)

    Hello! UK Graphics. Graphic Design in the UK since the 1980s

  • Bruce Jenkins

    Gordon Matta-Clark. Conical Intersect

  • Andreas Gelhard

    Kritik der Kompetenz

  • Klanten, Hellige (Hg.)

    The Modernist

  • Lars Spuybroek

    Textile Tectonics. Research and Design

  • Josep Lluís Mateo

    After Crisis. Contemporary Architectural Conditions

  • Louis Luthi

    On the Self-reflexive Page

  • Jan Kempemaers

    Spomenik

  • Vilém Flusser

    Dinge und Undinge. Phänomenologische Skizzen

  • O.M. Ungers

    Morphologie City Metaphors

  • Lisa Taylor & Gardeners of Seattle…

    Your Farm in the City

  • Hassenpflug, Giersig, Stratmann

    Reading the City. Stadt lesen

  • Butler, Habermas, Taylor, West

    The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere

  • Richard Fairfield

    The Modern Utopian. Alternative Communities of the 60s and…

  • Jochen Rädeker, Kirsten Dietz

    Reporting. Unternehmenskommunikation als Imageträger

  • Lorey, Nigro, Raunig (Hg.)

    Inventionen 1. Gemeinsam. Prekär. Potentia. Dis-/Konjunktion

  • Jimini Hignett

    The Detroit Diary

  • Klanten, Mollard, Hübner (Hg.)

    Behind the Zines. Self-Publishing Culture

  • Tom Holert

    Civic City Cahier 3. Distributed Agency, Design’s…

  • El Croquis 154

    Aires Mateus 2002-2011

  • Paul Van Beek, Charles Vermaas

    Landscapology. Learning to Landscape the City

  • Jan Ole Arps

    Frühschicht. Linke Fabrikintervention in den 70er Jahren

  • Detlef Mertins, Architecture Words 7

    Modernity Unbound

  • Gunter Reski, Marcus Weber (Hg.)

    Captain Pamphile. Ein Bildroman

  • Amy Allen (Hg.)

    Democracy in What State?

  • D. Hauptmann, W. Neidich (Hg.)

    Cognitive Architecture. From Biopolitics to NooPolitics

  • Stefan Sagmeister

    Sagmeister: Another Book about Promotion and Sales Material

  • Enzo Mari

    The Intellectual Work. Sixty Paperweights

  • Bettina Allamoda

    Catwalk to History - A Sourcebook

  • Peter Petschek, Siegfried Gaß (Hg.)

    Schatten konstruieren. Pergolen, Zelte, Pavillons, Seile,…

  • Will Jones (Hg.)

    Architects' Sketchbooks

  • Arno Brandlhuber, Silvan Linden (Hg.)

    Disko 16-19. u.a. The New Deathstrip, Townhouse

  • Martin Ebner, Florian Zeyfang (Hg.)

    Poor Man’s Expression

  • El Croquis 151

    Sou Fujimoto 2003-2010

  • Caleb Kelly (Hg.)

    Sound (Documents of Contemporary Art)

  • Terry Myers (Hg.)

    Painting (Documents of Contemporary Art)

  • Wilfried Dickhoff, Marcus Steinweg (Hg.)

    Inaesthetics 2

  • Nancy Holt

    Time Outs

  • Slinkachu

    Big Bad City

  • Ed Annink, Max Bruinsma

    Lovely Language. Words Divide Images Unite

  • Gwen Allen

    Artists' Magazines. An Alternative Space for Art [pb]

  • Michaela Meise

    Preis dem Todesüberwinder

  • C. Menke, J. Rebentisch (Hg.)

    Kreation und Depression. Freiheit im gegenwärtigen…

  • Gregory Sholette

    Dark Matter. Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise…

  • Drawing Center (Hg.)

    Iannis Xenakis. Architect, Composer, Visionary (Drawing…

  • Margit Rosen (Hg.)

    A Little-Known Story about a Movement

IDEA 386. Ministry of Graphic Design Fikra Graphic Design Biennial 01 Index

Direction by The Office of the Archive (Tetsuya Goto & Saki Ho) & Idea
Design by LABORATORIES (Kensaku Kato, Hiroyuki Kishida)
Translation by Duncan Brotheron, Manami Yamamoto, Emma Okubo, Christopher Stephens, Tetsuya Goto
Cooperation by Fikra Graphic Design Biennial
Photo by Obaid AlBudoor

The Sharjah-based, inaugural Fikra Graphic Design Biennial titled “Ministry of Graphic Design” presents graphic design as an intrinsic part of today’s world, seen in many aspects of our daily routine. Hosted in a country with innovative ministries, such as the Ministry of State for Happiness and Wellbeing and Ministry of Artificial Intelligence, the idea of a fictional “Ministry of Graphic Design” was utilized to dig deep into the origins, contemporary value, and potential of graphic design. Artists from many parts of the globe, including the Middle East, were invited to give lectures, workshops, and hold exhibitions that explored the possibilities of graphic design. 

The “Ministry of Graphic Design” was organized into five departments. The Department of Graphic Optimism presented an overview of graphic design in the UAE between the 1970s and 90s whereas The Department of Mapping Margins analyzed de-centralizing and de-colonizing strategies for design criticism. Design works of a wide range of designers from multi-cultural backgrounds were displayed in The Department of Non-Binaries while The Department of Flying Saucers functioned as an office space for four independent projects across the globe. Lastly, The Department of Dematerializing Language introduced unconventional ways of communication through design works, breaking away from the burden of producing easy-to-understand, legible works. 

This issue serves as an index of the keywords presented in the biennal and an attempt to reimagine the event through the contextualization of the behind-the-scenes work and the words of the artistic directors, curators, and featured artists. 


IDEA Magazine
IDEA 386. Ministry of Graphic Design Fikra Graphic Design Biennial 01 Index
Seibundo Shinkosha, 2019, IDEA386 2019.7