Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey

2023

Having germinated in a number of talks over the years, I started writing this up as “Made Redundant (4 Templates)” for the French graphic design journal Revue Faire some months before leaving my position as Head of Design at the ICA at the end of 2022. The title therefore has something of a double meaning, but “redundancy” here mainly alludes to the way in which design templates necessarily over-compensate for contingency. 

The essay recounts four projects made with various collaborators that can be found elsewhere on this site: Metropolis M, The First/Last Newspaper, Bulletins of The Serving Library, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The physical publication, with many more images, is available to purchase here.

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