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The Treachery of Images: Design’s Toxic Assets, and the Foundations of a New Future Processing (,.,.,.,.,.,.,) is a You may also listen to this piece in audio form, read by the author: Unbridled Capitalism (for most) is an abstraction. From the inside it’s hard to see edges—places where it does not exist. In this time when everything being for sale is normal—including the delivery of your purchases to your front door, car or screen—there is healthy competition to serve our best and worst impulses, and we would do well to know the difference. Design has its own values. See any desi...

The Black Astronaut Research Project: A Portal to a New Future The Denver-based . Rick Griffith and Stephen Brackett of the activist band Flobots had just finished appearing on an art education forum panel together, and over lunch, they wondered: “What can we do to escape the narrative associated with the North Atlantic slave trade—a narrative that has hurt everyone in the world with racial inequality and lack of equity?” As he pondered the all-encompassing gravitational pull of the subject, Griffith had a rather cosmic idea. “The natural place for that conversation to go is actuall...

Last-Minute Gifts for Designers: Rick Griffith’s Words to Design (and Live) By The Denver-based is PRINT’s first Artist-in-Residence. Check back every Wednesday throughout the next month, as we spotlight various projects by the graphic designer and master letterpress printer. And to read or listen to the first installment of his new PRINT column, “Processing (,.,.,.,.,.,.,),” . One thing that is often absent from so many curricula in so many fields, both in theory and practice: ethics. And that’s why we love Rick Griffith’s “ Introductory Ethic for Designers”—because of i...

Rick Griffith: The Art and Craft of the Second-Guess The Denver-based Processing (,.,.,.,.,.,.,),” . So many of us find creative paralysis in second-guessing ourselves. But perpetual second-guesser Rick Griffith has made an artform of it—quite literally. “Anxiety seems like a natural human state,” Griffith says. “Anyone that says that they don't suffer from it, I’m suspicious of.” As for whether it’s a positive or negative thing—Griffith says that if we’re embracing our full human-ness, why judge it as a negative? “The challenge of anxiety is really one of it works i...

A bartender looking to cash in on her older husband's life insurance. an accused drug dealer looking to settle a score with an inform apt. no, they're not the female villains in your favorite soap opera, but they are the star of two of the most unique and bizarre real life murder for hire stories. >> women are more cold blooded than men. women have a very deep down inside, a very calculating and very violent streak. >> former com coal bureau of investigation undercover agent rick griffith may have been influenced in this opinion by one of his strangest cases, that of donna stills. >> i was dum...