LSD #03: A DIY Issue

Le Signe Design (LSD) is a periodical platform for the production, distribution, creative support, dialogue, and mediation between the artistic field of graphic design and the public. It is produced by Le Signe Documents, the publishing arm of Le Signe, France’s National Center of Graphic Design,This third issue is about DIY ("Do-it-yourself") practices and is based on the work of Gilles de Brock, graphic designer who became a ceramic tile manufacturer. Do It Yourself practices are not, as is commonly assumed, limited to home improvement, nor just a way of subverting—hacking—a given social and political organization. They are also a way of looking both forward and backward, at our future and our heritage. They involve our heritage insofar as they allow constituted groups to revive past knowledge and skills threatened with extinction. They look forward in that they make it possible to create tools that do not yet exist but could. Produced in parallel with a solo exhibition retracing de