Jacob Lindgren is a graphic designer and writer in Chicago with an interest in the public-creating qualities inherent to publishing—via books, lectures, essays, websites, or learning groups.
Graphic Design’s Factory Settings
“Design education not only teaches its technical and historical canon, or how to design, but more importantly teaches students how to be designers in society and in relation to capital,” writes designer Jacob Lindgren. “A school becomes a factory producing designers, one that, in keeping with the principles of ‘good design,’ turns them into efficient and interchangeable parts ready to hit the market.” In a new essay, Lindgren proposes models that may help us undo this factory setting of graphic design.