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  First things first 1964 Manifesto - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The First Things First manifesto was written 29 November 1963 and published in 1964 by Ken Garland.
Drawing on ideas shared by Critical Theory, the Frankfurt School and the counter-culture of the time it explicitly re-affirmed the belief that Design is not a neutral value-free process.
It was later updated and republished with a new group of signatories as the First Things First 2000 manifesto.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/First_things_first_1964_Manifesto   (223 words)

  
  First things first 1964 Manifesto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The First Things First manifesto was written 29 November 1963 and published in 1964 by Ken Garland.
Drawing on ideas shared by Critical Theory, the Frankfurt School and the counter-culture of the time it explicitly re-affirmed the belief that Design is not a neutral value-free process.
It was later updated and republished with a new group of signatories under the First things first 2000 Manifesto.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_things_first_1964_Manifesto   (197 words)

  
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 Manifesto
Fascist manifesto The Fascist manifesto was the initial declaration of the political stance of the founders of Italy.
Libre Manifesto The Libre Manifesto is a literature.
Manifesto A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intensions, often political in nature.
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 first_things_first · The Design Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Long used as a rhetorical device to suggest pragmatism over idealism, the title of this 1964 Manifesto was one of the first public statements that urged graphic designers to find alternatives to commercial projects in their work.
Where Franklin urged that “in all things set priorities, first things first,” the 1964 statement called for a “reversal of priorities.” Distinguishing between design as communication and design as persuasion, the Manifesto focuses its attention on the intentions and ethical culpability of designers.
The original First Things First signatories were: Edward Wright, Geoffrey White, William Slack, Caroline Rawlence, Ian McLaren, Sam Lambert, Ivor Kamlish, Gerald Jones, Bernard Higton, Brian Grimbly, John Garner, Ken Garland, Anthony Froshaug, Robin Fior, Germano Facetti, Ivan Dodd, Harriet Crowder, Anthony Clift, Gerry Cinamon, Robert Chapman, Ray Carpenter, Ken Briggs.
www.thedesignencyclopedia.org /first_things_first?DokuWiki=20c1a949830aaa879fa98eba8661fb96   (586 words)

  
 Daily Journal of Commerce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Like the manifestos that came before it, it was brash, outspoken, and planted smack in the middle of its social and cultural period – the booming, advertising-friendly economy of 1960s Britain.
The First Things First manifestos are taught at Portland State University during the beginning few weeks of a class for senior students beginning to put together their own body of work.
Manifestos, Sandstrom says, have been the device of agency account planners for years, as a name for the written piece that determines the voice and direction and sense of personality that’s used to drive the communications for a particular brand.
www.djc-or.com /des06-1-s2.cfm   (1909 words)

  
 Manifesto Font from TYPEBOX
Manifesto was designed for an article written in response to opinions that philosophy and personal expression have been wiped from today's design profession.
The publishing of the First Things First manifesto 2000 is exhibit A that a trend for social belief systems is growing.
The four 'voices' of the Manifesto Family (Regular, Slant, Stout and Stencil) is intended for your typographical response, and push for conscientious design.
www.graphic-design.com /Type/manifesto/index.html   (218 words)

  
 First Things First Manifesto 2000
An updated version of a 1964 declaration, FTF 2000 states that too much design energy is being spent to promote pointless consumerism, and too little to helping people understand an increasingly complex and fragile world.
The manifesto is being debated everywhere in design schools, and Ken Garland, who wrote the original, reports that even if he doesn’t bring it up, as a visiting lecturer, the students invariably do.
Today, we renew their manifesto in expectation that no more decades will pass before it is taken to heart.
www.art-omma.org /issue8/text/FirstThingsFirst.htm   (1003 words)

  
 Graphic Design - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This historicism was, however, historically important as it amounted to the first significant reaction to the stale state of nineteenth-century graphic design.
An important point was reached in graphic design with the publishing of the First things first 1964 Manifesto which was a call to a more radical form of graphic design and criticised the ideas of value-free design.
Although they were very limiting at first, as computing power increased and software such as Adobe Photoshop emerged, it was evident exactly what kind of creative freedom and power that computers could provide.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /graphic_design.htm   (1303 words)

  
 First things first 1964 Manifesto
Drawing on ideas shared by Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School and the counter-culture of the time it explicitly reaffirmed the belief that Design is not a neutral value-free process.
It ralied against the consumerist culture that was purely concerned with buying and selling things and tried to highlight a Humanist dimension to graphic design theory.
It was later updated and republished with a new group of signitatiries under the First things first 2000 Manifesto
www.xasa.biz /wiki/en/wikipedia/f/fi/first_things_first_1964_manifesto.html   (185 words)

  
 eye | feature
We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, art directors and visual communicators who have been raised in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable use of our talents.
Kalle Lasn, editor of Adbusters, showed the issue with 'First Things First' to the late Tibor Kalman, who said: 'We should do this now.' They met Ken Garland himself at their Vancouver HQ.
'First Things First Manifesto 2000' is being published in its entirety, with 33 signatories’ names, in Adbusters, Emigre and the AIGA Journal in North America, in Eye and Blueprint in Britain, in Items in the Netherlands, and Form in Germany.
www.eyemagazine.com /feature.php?id=18&fid=99   (807 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Graphic design
This historicism was, however, historically important as it amounted to the first significant reaction to the stale state of nineteenth-century graphic design.
An important point was reached in graphic design with the publishing of the First things first 1964 Manifesto which was a call to a more radical form of graphic design and criticised the ideas of value-free design.
Although they were very limiting at first, as computing power increased and software such as Adobe Photoshop emerged, it was evident exactly what kind of creative freedom and power that computers could provide.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Graphic_artist   (1420 words)

  
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In a First Wave economy, land and farm labor are the main "factors of production." In a Second Wave economy, the land remains valuable while the "labor" becomes massified around machines and larger industries.
"If things are so good," Forbes magazine asked recently, "why do we feel so bad?" In part, this is why: Because we constitute the final generation of an old civilization and, at the very same time, the first generation of a new one.
Defining and Assigning Property Rights In 1964, libertarian icon Ayn Rand wrote: "It is the proper task of government to protect individual rights and, as part of it, formulate the laws by which these rights are to be implemented and adjudicated.
www.ifla.org /documents/libraries/net/magna.txt   (6527 words)

  
 Manifesto
In short: all things are created equal; they should be venerated as ends in themselves, intrinsically valuable apart from Man; and they have equal rights to their own kinds of "self-realization" free from human interference or exploitation.
The federal government's 1964 Wilderness Act defines a wilderness "as an area where the earth and the community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." No roads, cabins, camping facilities, campfires, mechanized vehicles of any kind are permitted to sully these virginal expanses.
For one thing, it assumes that problem solving lies at the heart of the environmentalist agenda: that the conflict is over pollution and dirt, rather than values.
www.cdfe.org /manifesto.htm   (8660 words)

  
 Be A Design Group: Graphic Design as a Group Experience
In 2000, the manifesto was revised to “propose a reversal of priorities in favor of… a mindshift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning.” We believe the “First Things First Revisited” manifesto is so deeply flawed that an alternative needs to be presented.
The most notable were the controversial gay marriage manifesto, the ligher toned email etiquette manifesto, and one on customer loyalty.
“When I first read First Things First [the 1964 manifesto calling on designers to use their skills for more worthy pursuits, which was reissued in 1999], I was reminded of when sometimes, when a crime’s committed, people will confess to it even though they didn’t do it because they’re dying for the attention.
www.beadesigngroup.com /blog/archives/2004/08/another_design_manifesto.shtml   (1017 words)

  
 BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis
First, let's recognize that this is not Europe or much of the rest of the parliamentary world, where the people elect parties over individuals and where coalitions put together governments (which can easily fall apart) and the winning party, instead of the voters, often selects the nation's executive.
Claire is the first person I know who wrote a novel and put it online, where it was discovered by a big publisher and now her book is in bookstores.
And for the first time anywhere, readers will have the authority to determine much about how much news guerillas are paid for their articles.
www.buzzmachine.com /archives/2004_02.html   (14850 words)

  
 British Labour Party election manifesto: 1964
Here is Labour's Manifesto for the 1964 election, restless with positive remedies for the problems the Tories have criminally neglected.
Britain can achieve them provided that it resolutely wills three things: the mobilisation of its resources within a national plan; the maintenance of a wise balance between community and individual expenditure; and the education of all its citizens in the responsibilities of this scientific age, not merely a small section of them.
As a first step, we shall submit the whole area of weapons supply to a searching re-examination in order to ensure that the limited sums available are spent on those weapons best designed to carry out our policies and fulfil our obligations.
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk/man/lab64.htm   (8681 words)

  
 Graphic Design Family Values: Design education: Education: AIGA
First, we must examine our own convictions, and determine which of those we wish to stress through our courses and the experiences we provide to our students.
Likewise, Ken Garland's well-known "First Things First" manifesto (originally published in the UK in 1964 and revised in 2000) expresses similar sentiments.
Students shouldn't have to think much about the faculty's convictions and how those are reflected through a program's educational approach, as such things should be clearly and simply stated in the information that we provide.
www.aiga.org /content.cfm/graphic-design-family-values   (1285 words)

  
 max bruinsma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Back in 1964, a small number of British graphic designers lent their names to a quietly radical document.
First Things First was a rebuke to their colleagues in the industry for having forgotten their old idealism and lost sight of the things that really mater.
Ken Garland, the driving force behind the 1964 manifesto, visited the Adbusters office from London and gave his nod to the project.
www.maxbruinsma.nl /ftfdix.htm   (299 words)

  
 <nettime> First Things First
FIRST THINGS FIRST 2000 A MANIFESTO The manifesto below summons designers, visual communicators and advertisers worldwide to concentrate on things more serious than promoting dogfood and deodorants...
The manifesto, signed by 33 prominent graphic designers, art-directors and critics, is published jointly this Autumn by seven international design magazines: Adbusters (CAN), The AIGA Journal (USA), Blueprint (UK), Emigre (USA), Eye (UK), Form (BDR), Items (NL).
The manifesto aims at stimulating the debate on the cultural and social responsibility of designers.
www.nettime.org /Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9908/msg00114.html   (485 words)

  
 Nationalist Party Manifesto
The first principle is that the right to control, to direct and to partake of the fruits of work, should be reserved to those who in some way contribute towards the productive activity of the particular enterprise.
Our first priority will be to arrest this trend by tackling its root causes, but we must also strengthen the capability of those concerned with the apprehension of offenders to do their job effectively.
As a first step towards closer integration of the farming community with the rest of Maltese society, we will establish the facts relating to farmers and farming by means of a properly devised census: the present so-called annual censal exercises do not give a true picture of the situation.
www.maltadata.com /pn-81.htm   (18474 words)

  
 Manifesto - Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The user interface is the means by which the user and the program interact to produce the behavior that will accomplish the user's tasks, much as organs of touch, sight, and hearing are the means by which human organisms interact with their environment.
The closest thing to a discussion of dual-natured literary works in the copyright literature is the case of Baker v.
The first substantial victory in the United States' international campaign for copyright was in Japan.
www.law.cornell.edu /commentary/intelpro/manifnts.htm   (16918 words)

  
 The Public Square [February 2000]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A student’s encounter with hubristics often begins in his first composition course, Hubristics 101 if you will, where he or she may be taught that clear communication has less importance than authentic self—expression and ideologically approved thought.
The remarkable thing about the new guide is that it is endorsed by a very broad array of organizations, ranging from the National Association of Evangelicals to the National Education Association.
The new manifesto urges humanity to "leave behind the magical thinking and myth—making that are substitutes for tested knowledge of nature," notes that religions "have their origins in pre—urban nomadic and agricultural societies of the past" and are irrelevant to the "postindustrial global information culture that is emerging," and calls for a World Parliament.
www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0002/public.html   (10876 words)

  
 Technology and Pleasure
One of the things that characterized the early hackers, was their almost wholesale rejection of Taylorist principles and practices, and their continued insistence that computer work was an art and a craft and that quality and excellence in computer work had to be rooted in artistic expression and craftsmanship and not in regulations.
My first reading of Dahlbom and Mathisen's text left me with the impression that hackers were the "tinkerers" in their "terminology", while "engineers" were those using all of the "scientific" and professional methods.
First, thanks to Eline Vedel, for encouraging me to write this piece in the first place, and for being available to discuss it at various points on the way.
firstmonday.org /issues/issue4_2/gisle   (9531 words)

  
 HONEST THINGS
First, there's evidence that John wrote Revelation well before A.D. 70, and that his prophecy points to that date.
He is looking for these things to occur in the natural, rather than in the spiritual realm.
The devil and his antichrists and their fans were thrown into the lake of fire and the new Israel, the new Jerusalem, a spiritual kingdom ruled by Jesus, descended to earth.
honestthings.blogspot.com   (3117 words)

  
 brushstroke.tv | jessica helfand
Art movements aside and fascist tendencies notwithstanding, the manifesto, in its purest incarnation, is still largely considered a powerful purveyor of ideology; by conjecture, it is also a provocative social stimulant for self-appointed activists.
Bearing in mind the limited attention span of the general public, the typical contemporary manifesto is pithy, abbreviated, and strident in tone, a staccato series of ex-cathedra statements and, it is hoped, quote-worthy sound bytes.
It is intended to debunk the exalted claims of wannabe philosophers and soap-box proselytizers, to critique the posturing and the pretense, the lofty promises, the loose-cannon platitudes.
www.brushstroke.tv /helfand/essay.html   (1271 words)

  
 THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT:
First, we will consider some general reasons why dendritic development is important for the representational properties of cortex.
Starting with the first grammar, the learner then rejects each one in turn if it is inconsistent with what it has seen so far and tries out the next grammar in the enumeration.
Human development accordingly consists of two processes, first a prolonged period of representation construction in which neural structures respond to the informational structure of the environment, and, second, rapid learning, made possible by the first.
www.bbsonline.org /documents/a/00/00/04/93/bbs00000493-00/bbs.quartz.html   (18419 words)

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