Azimuts #59 - Graphisme(s): Transmitting gestures, tools, thoughts and practices today

Issue no. 59 of Azimuts, commissioned from the IRD (Images, Récits, Documents) laboratory, is about graphic design and, more specifically, the ways in which it is passed on or conveyed. The notion of transmission is at stake, in the present but also in time and space, undoubtedly because there is a journey to be made. The environments in which transmission takes place need to be questioned, as well as its verticality. Why not rehabilitate sharing and communication, and take into account the social environment of visual productions? Signs, text and image obviously play a part in shaping the modes of visibility or invisibility that graphic design goes through. By examining the technical, manual, mechanical and digital tools used in a system of inscription, as well as the learning processes involved in acquiring the graphic gesture, what possibly turns this act into a praxis may be grasped. Graphic thinking may be at work in the practice of graphic design, perhaps because it is already informed in many individual and collective teaching and didactic situations. Ultimately, the agentivity of graphic design is first and foremost what operates on the identity of the writing subject.