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Contributors

Anthony Crabbe is Reader in Design at Nottingham
Trent University (NTU), and is now primarily
involved in design knowledge transfer collaborations
with external businesses and agencies. He is presently
engaged in a number of projects investigating novel
uses of waste cellulose as aggregates for thermoset
molded products.

Rebecca Dalvesco obtained her PhD from Arizona
State University in architectural history theory, E
critica. Her MS is in industrial design theory, criti-
cism and methodology; her BFA, drawing/painting.
She has published numerous essays on film, industrial
progetto, interior architecture, and architecture. Her
book Fuller Speak pertains to Richard Buckminster
Fuller’s Dymaxion Vehicle and Fuller’s language.
Dalvesco was art history chair and design historian
at The University of Wisconsin-Stout. She later became
assistant professor at The School of The Art Institute
of Chicago, Department of Architecture, Interior
Architecture, and Designed Objects; and was
also a faculty affiliate of the school’s Art History
Department.

Carl DiSalvo is an Assistant Professor in the Digital
Media program in the School of Literature, Communi-
catione, e Cultura, at the Georgia Institute of Tech-
nology. Since 2010, DiSalvo has also served as the book
review editor for Design Issues.

Elizabeth Guffey is Juanita and Joseph Leff
Distinguished Professor of Art and Design History
at Purchase College, State University of New York.
She is the author of Retro: The Culture of Revival
(Reaktion, 2006) and Poster (forthcoming). She is also
founding editor of the journal Design and Culture.

Christine M. E. Guth leads the Asian design history
specialism in the Royal College of Art and Victoria
and Albert Museum Design History Programme. She
is the author of many publications on Japan, including
Arte, Tea and Industry: Masuda Takashi and the Mitsui Cir-
cle (1993) and Longfellow’s Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting,
and Japan (2004). This essay is part of a larger Project
on the global history of “The Great Wave.”

Terry Irwin is co-designer for this cover of Design
Issues 28, NO. 2 and the Head of the School of Design
at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. She was
a founding partner and creative director in the
San Francisco office of MetaDesign, an international
design firm from 1992-2001. She received her MFA
from the Basel School of Design in Switzerland in 1986
and completed an MSc in Holistic Science from
Schumacher College/Plymouth University in Devon,
England in 2004. She is currently a PhD researcher
with the Center for the Study of Natural Design at the
University of Dundee, Scotland.

Marcus Jahnke (MFA in Design; BSc in Innovation
Engineering) is a PhD student in Design at Business
& Design Lab within HDK, the School of Design
and Crafts at the University of Gothenburg in
Sweden. His thesis (2012) explores the intersection
between design practice and innovation. The study
is empirical and involves several designers and
companies in an experimental set-up. In earlier
research, Marcus studied design and gender issues
as well as sustainability issues in relation to design.
Marcus also has a practice background from the
automotive and building sectors.

Gideon Kossoff, co-designer for this cover of Design
Issues 28, NO. 2 and originally from London, UK,
is a social ecologist and design theorist based in
Pittsburgh, PAPÀ. He has recently been awarded a PhD
in Design from the University of Dundee, Scotland. In
his thesis, he developed a holistic framework for the
designed transition to a sustainable society. From 1998
A 2007, he worked at Schumacher College, an interna-
tional center for ecological studies in Devon, UK.
Here, among other roles, he was administrator and
course tutor on the MSc in Holistic Science and also
curated the College library.

Stéphane Laurent is a French historian of art and
progetto. He published numerous books and articles
related to those fields. He has been invited as a
visiting scholar by prestigious institutions such as
the Japan Foundation, the National Gallery of Art,
Washington DC and the Center for Chinese Studies,
Republic of China.

Grace Lees-Maffei, FHEA, is Managing Editor of
the Journal of Design History and Reader in Design
History at the University of Hertfordshire, UK,
where she coordinates the Theorizing Visual Art
and Design (TVAD) Research Group in its work
on relationships between text, narrative and image.
Her research centers upon the mediation of design
and her publications include The Design History Reader
(Berg, 2010) and Writing Design: Words and Objects
(Berg, 2011).

Maura Lucking is currently pursuing a master’s
degree in Modern and Contemporary Art History,
Criticism and Theory from the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, where she was awarded the
department’s full trustee fellowship. Her thesis
research investigates the role of environmental
psychology on the design practice and pedagogy
of Los Angeles architect and educator Ray Kappe
between 1965 E 1976.

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Claudia Mareis, DPhil, is a Senior Researcher at the
NCCR “eikones,” University of Basel. Her research
interests include the history and theory of design,
creativity techniques, and the history of knowledge in
the 20th century. She teaches at several art schools and
universities in Switzerland and Germany, and is a
board member of the German Association for design
theory and research DGTF, as well as a member of the
“Board of International Research in Design” at
Birkhäuser Publisher.

Jonathan Mekinda is a historian of modern and
contemporary architecture and design and a Visiting
Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design
and the Department of Art History at the University
of Illinois at Chicago. He received his PhD in the
History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania,
where his work was supported by the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation. His current research investigates archi-
tecture and design in Italy between 1930 E 1960,
with a particular focus on the Neorealist culture of
the postwar period.

Cover Design Concept and Acknowledgements

Cover Design Concept
Cover designers Terry Irwin and Gideon Kossoff
referenced chaos/complexity theories in developing
the Design Issues 28, NO. 2 front and back cover design
concept. In chaos theory, the “butterfly effect” refers
to the sensitivity to initial conditions present within
open, non-linear systems of all kinds, such as the
weather, ecosystems and social organizations. Small
changes in one place in a system can result in large,
unpredictable changes elsewhere. The effect was
named by mathematician and meteorologist Edward
Lorenz who posited that a hurricane’s formation
could be the result of a butterfly flapping its wings
in a distant place, several weeks prior. He designed
a simple model of weather conditions comprised
of three coupled, non-linear equations. The visual
representation of this concept is the “Lorenz attractor”
which is shown on the cover along with its mathema-
tical equations. This dynamic can be seen in social
systems and is embodied in the Occupy Wallstreet
movement. The original challenge, issued by
Adbusters in July of 2011, was similar to the flap
of the butterfly’s wings. This simple, localized action
gathered momentum and much like the hurricane,
has become a global movement, empowered by
communication design and social network technology
such as twitter; #OWS. The posters on the back cover
were produced spontaneously by artists, activists and
designers from around the world and are only a small
representation of this grassroots phenomenon.

Acknowledgements
Front Cover: Lorenz attractor courtesy of Ivo Petras,
Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia.

Back Cover: #OCCUPYWALLSTREET announcement
courtesy Adbusters, adbusters.org

Occupy Wallstreet posters courtesy of Occuprint.org
including the following artists and designers (left to
right): John Emerson, Brooklyn, New York; Alexandra
Clotfelter, Savannah, GA; Kennardphillipps, London;
Nick Seman, Akron, OH; Juanito Sienfuegos,
Mexico City; Aaron Samsel, New York City, NY;
Josh MacPhee/justseeds.org, Brooklyn, NY; Christine
Fuller, Naples, FL; Dread Scott and Kyle Goen,
Brooklyn, NY; Mason London, London, UK;
Colectivo Cordyceps, Mexico City; Mark Miller,
Los Angeles, CA; Kevin Yuen Kit Lo/LOKi design,
Montreal, Canada; Fahmi Reza, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia; Fahmi Reza, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
Mario Klingemann, Munich, Germany; Keisuke
Narita, Tokyo, Japan; Nobodycorp Internationale
Unlimited, Indonesia; Fabian Tabibain, New York, NY;
Nobodycorp Internationale Unlimited, Indonesia;
Cloudesley Rook-Hobbs, Regina, Canada; Edinblack,
KA; Jamaa Al-Yad Artists’ Collective/jamaalyad.org,
Beirut, Lebanon; Dave Loewenstein, Lawrence, KA;
Ray Cross, Bushwick, NY; Fred Davis, Los Angeles,
CA; Dave Loewenstein, Lawrence, KA; Jay Bryant,
Seattle, WA; Would Occupy, Rio de Janeiro, Brasile;
Tarek Salhany, London, UK; Lisa DiPetto, New York,
NY; Krysteff, Bournemouth, UK; Brad Kayal, San
Francesco, CA; Dignidad Rebelde, Bay Area, CA; John
Emerson, Brooklyn, NY; Michael Swarts, Biloxi, MI;
Rob Sheridan, Los Angeles, CA.

We wish to express our sincere gratitude to Brian
Herman, Broudy Printing, Inc., for his gracious
support in finalizing cover specifications.

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