RESEARCH AND DESTROY

Daniel van der Velden, in his RESEARCH AND DESTROY manifesto, motivates the designer to redesign himself, by going beyond the mere response to a necessity, being willing to create knowledge, submitting himself completely to the world of innovation, without limitations, in a manipulation of shapes, colors and feelings.

The foldable poster intends to reference this very concept by looking at the word Research (the gathering, analysis, filtering, and exploration), culminating in a distorted blur of letters forming the word Destroy (the conclusion one reaches, the message one wishes to convey). The style adopted for the artwork evokes the style of Metahaven (Daniel van der Velden and Vinca Kruk's design studio), using effects that disrupt legibility.