Open Manifesto <br>An Anthology
A collection by Kevin FinnConversations and essays by influential thinkers, collected from the iconic design journal. “It’s opinionated, it’s inspiring, it’s illuminating and it’s cheeky. Open Manifesto is a great, necessary read and an important advocate for the role and potential design can provide in our culture, and the world.” – Debbie Millman, host, Design MattersIn 2003, the then Joint Creative Director at Saatchi Design Sydney, Kevin Finn founded the independent design journal Open Manifesto under the modest banner ‘Some thoughts on graphic design’. In the fifteen years that followed, Open Manifesto proved to be a lot more, and threw out the rule book of what a design journal should be. While always delivering a heady mix of knowledge and journalism, Open Manifesto exhibited astonishing breadth, exploring how design intersects across social, cultural, political and economic fields. It sought to understand the way design permeates our lives – past, present and future.An unsung g