Failed Design: What Were They Thinking?

Design is a process, yet in our success-driven world, we tend to focus on the end result. Why do some designs succeed and others fail, and who decides? What is the distinction between bad and failed design? Does studying “failure” offer the prospect of a unique historical perspective? The 2009 Graduate Student Symposium at the Bard Graduate Center has gathered student speakers and graphic designer and critic William Drenttel to explore failed design and the insight it offers into societies and individuals. Failed Design: What Were They Thinking? will take place on April 24, 2009 at 410 West 58th Street, New York, NY R.S.V.P. [email protected] Online Flyer