untitled, a design manifesto
“Untitled” is a design manifesto that rejects the use of labels within the arts. Adapted to the format of a Spotify playlist, the most influential modern-day way of categorizing music, this project asks whether labels could ever truly be genre-less. By digitally distorting images of influential musicians, each having blurred the lines of genres through collaboration, these playlist covers follow conventions while simultaneously breaking them.
manifesto’s 5 key points
- Manifestos themselves are inherently modernist
- Labels turn innovative ideas into tropes and cliches
- Labels exist as a capitalist tool to commercialize and mass market abstract concepts into digestible titles
- Context matters. Who assigns the label matters. Names of collectives which boundary pushing work is associated with is not the same as a label assigned to that group from outside sources.
- Labels strip the individual artists of their autonomy
︎︎︎
untitled, a deisgn manifesto
“Untitled” is a design manifesto that rejects the use of labels within the arts. Adapted to the format of a Spotify playlist, the most influential modern-day way of categorizing music, this project asks whether labels could ever truly be genre-less. By digitally distorting images of influential musicians, each having blurred the lines of genres through collaboration, these playlist covers follow conventions while simultaneously breaking them.
Manifesto’s 5 key points
- Manifestos themselves are inherently modernist
- Labels turn innovative ideas into tropes and cliches
- Labels exist as a capitalist tool to commercialize and mass market abstract concepts into digestible titles
- Context matters. Who assigns the label matters. Names of collectives which boundary pushing work is associated with is not the same as a label assigned to that group from outside sources.
- Labels strip the individual artists of their autonomy
/ˈi:θən/
