Resume
Francisco Laranjo is a graphic designer and researcher. PhD in design methods and criticism from the University of the Arts London, MA in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art and BA from ESAD – Escola Superior de Artes e Design. His writings have been published on Design Observer, Eye, Creative Review, Grafik, Eye on Design, Público, among others. He has been a visiting and guest lecturer at the Sandberg Institute (NL), CalArts (US), Royal College of Art, London College of Communication, Kingston University (UK), Zürich University of the Arts, University of the Arts Bern (Switzerland) and speaker at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria), University of South Australia (AUS), University of the Arts Split (Croatia), BAU (Spain), University of Porto, University of Lisbon, University of Coimbra (Portugal), among others. He is an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, Editor of the design criticism journal Modes of Criticism, Co-director of the Shared Institute and Assistant Professor at Lusófona University.
Graus
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LicenciaturaDesign de Comunicação
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MasterVisual Communication
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Doctor of PhilosophyDesign Methods and Criticism
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OutrosCLTAD, Preparing to Teach (Art & Design)
Publicações
Magazine article
- 2021, Pedagogies of the Sun, MOLD Magazine
- 2017-04, Delusion & data-driven design, Creative Review
- 2014-10-27, Five Strategies Tabled in Eindhoven, Eye Magazine
- 2014-04-16, Critical Graphic Design: Critical of What?, Design Observer
- 2014, Nostalgia for the Carnation Revolution, Eye Magazine
- 2013-06-12, The Whitney Identity: Responding to W(hat)?, Design Observer
- 2012, Publicacão Própria ou Design Gráfico em Modo Curatorial, PLI Arte & Design
- 2010, The Fluorescent Society, Bypass
- 2008, What’s Shock(ing) in Graphic Design?, ARC
Journal article
- 2024-08, Grayzones: Quitting Designland in 2036, Journal of Design History
- 2021-04, São João National Theater: The Autonomy of Experimentation, AIGA Eye on Design
- 2019-12-12, Graphic Design Systems, and the Systems of Graphic Design, Modes of Criticism
- 2014, Almanaque: A Feast of Portuguese Magazines, Pli Arte e Design
Thesis / Dissertation
- 2017-02-01, PhD, Design as Criticism: Methods for a Critical Graphic Design Practice
Book
- 2021, Teatro Visual: 100 Anos de Objectos Gráficos, 1, Laranjo, Francisco, Teatro Nacional São João
Book chapter
- 2024, João Faria: tudo tem a ver com tudo, LUGA Poster Biennale, Polytechnic University of Porto
- 2022, Graphic Design After the New Normal, Graphic Design Is (...) Not Innocent: Scrutinizing Visual Communication Today, 1, 1, Valiz
- 2020, Modes of Criticism, Interview with Hackers & Designers, Coded Bodies – Hackers & Designers, 1, 1, Hackers & Designers
- 2018, Critical Graphic Design: Critical of What?, Culture Is Not Always Popular: Fifteen Years of Design Observer, 1, 1, MIT Press
- 2018, A Brief History of the Design Summer School, Extra-curricular, 1, 1, Onomatopee
- 2017, It's Nice That Intro, Modes of Criticism 3 – Design and Democracy, 3, 1, Onomatopee
- 2017, Critical Graphic Design: Critical of What?, The Graphic Design Reader, 1, 1, Bloomsbury Academic
- 2015, Avoiding the Post-critical, Modes of Criticism 1 – Critical, Uncritical, Post-critical, 1, 1, Modes of Criticism
- 2009, Beyond Hybridity, A Nervous Nap: On Expanding the Field in Design , 1, 1, Fundacja Bec Zmiana
Edited book
- 2021, 1, 1, Onomatopee
- 2019, 5, 1, Onomatopee
- 2019, 4, 1, Onomatopee
- 2017, 3, 1, Onomatopee
- 2016, 2, 1, Modes of Criticism
- 2015, 1, 1, Modes of Criticism
Newspaper article
- 2023-06-19, Regresso ao futuro da escola: dos ecrãs aos livros, Público
- 2016-04-26, Placas Toponímicas do Porto: Uniformizac¸a~o e Coerência, Público P3
- 2016-04-19, Simplismo., Público P3
- 2016-01-26, Design e (des)ilusão, Público P3
- 2016-01-16, A Intervenc¸a~o Como Comodidade, Público P3
Online resource
- 2016-12-02, Ghosts of Designbots Yet To Come, http://www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/ghosts-of-designbots-yet-to-come
- 2015, Critical Everything (Grafik Magazine), https://modesofcriticism.org/critical-everything/
- 2010-11, Trendy Anarchy, or Why Just Being ‘anti’ is Not Enough, London Design Festival, https://modesofcriticism.org/trendy-anarchy/
Conference paper
- 2013-11-27, Critical Design and Critical Practice: A Metholodological Approach?, Critique 2013
Artistic exhibition
- 2022-09-01, Designers Troublemakers – Exhibition about critical graphic design
Curatorial / Museum exhibition
- 2019-10-04, Design Systems, Porto Design Biennale 2019