All Possible Futures: Unrealized Archive

Stripe SF
2017

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All Possible Futures: Unrealized Archive, 2017, uncovers “unrealized” graphic design projects that consumed many hours—sometimes years—of work, but were never produced. These fascinating proposals—ranging in form from PDFs to photos, dummies, models, and sketches—remain unmade but are deserving of serious discussion. Unlike in architecture and product design, where “unbuilt” or “speculative” work is forefronted as an important subject of critical discourse, most of these projects have until now been buried in flat files or deep in hard-drive storage. We are intrigued by the possibility of making innovative but unrealized graphic design concepts visible to the public and available for critical discussion. What would our discipline look like if unrealized work was treated as a legitimate area of inquiry? This publication holds the complete set of unrealized projects included in the exhibition All Possible Futures.

Designer / Editor
Jon Sueda
Designer / Editor
Christopher Hamamoto
Printer
Colpa Press
Writer
Aileen Kwun