<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>LOKi design &#124;&#124; Four Minutes to Midnight</title>
	<atom:link href="http://lokidesign.net/2356/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://lokidesign.net/2356</link>
	<description>word + image studio</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 01:59:02 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Some thoughts on &#8220;Critical Graphic Design&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/05/some-thought-on-critical-graphic-design/</link>
		<comments>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/05/some-thought-on-critical-graphic-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading and writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lokidesign.net/2356/?p=3788</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I was invited to participate in a small symposium/dinner at the N/A space in Toronto on the subject of &#8220;Critical Graphic Design&#8221;. Organised by Chris Lee and Patricio Davila, the dinner brought together a diverse group of (mostly local) designers, educators, researchers and activists to chat informally about what critical graphic design might [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/05/some-thought-on-critical-graphic-design/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Song for Saturday: Atmosphere</title>
		<link>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/05/song-for-saturday-atmosphere/</link>
		<comments>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/05/song-for-saturday-atmosphere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 22:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lokidesign.net/2356/?p=3796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RIP Ian Curtis.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/05/song-for-saturday-atmosphere/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Quelques Notes</title>
		<link>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/05/quelques-notes/</link>
		<comments>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/05/quelques-notes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 19:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[inspirations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lokidesign.net/2356/?p=3779</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My arm and the back of John&#8217;s head at last year&#8217;s May 22 manif I&#8217;m surprised I haven&#8217;t posted about my friend and collaborator Thien V&#8216;s work on here before now. Thien is a talented young photographer who has established himself as one of the preeminent documentarians of the unprecedented social uprisings in Montreal over [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/05/quelques-notes/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Song for Saturday: Swans</title>
		<link>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/04/song-for-saturday-swans/</link>
		<comments>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/04/song-for-saturday-swans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lokidesign.net/2356/?p=3774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/04/song-for-saturday-swans/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Spring Update</title>
		<link>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/04/spring-update/</link>
		<comments>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/04/spring-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portfolio]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lokidesign.net/2356/?p=3760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SSENSE: Beyond Control Editorial I&#8217;ve sadly neglected this blog for a while now, due to some big changes and challenges in my professional and personal life. To my &#8220;loyal readership&#8221;, my sincerest apologies. The big news is that after a very introspective January, I decided to take on a full-time position as the Art &#038; [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/04/spring-update/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>RIP Ian Noble</title>
		<link>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/02/rip-ian-noble/</link>
		<comments>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/02/rip-ian-noble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lokidesign.net/2356/?p=3741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 30th, designer, educator, and author Ian Noble passed away. Ian was my professor during my MA at the London College of Printing and I was deeply saddened by the news. I first met Ian back in the fall of 2001, during the Declarations conference in Montreal. I participated in the We Interrupt the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/02/rip-ian-noble/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>States of Grace</title>
		<link>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/01/states-of-grace/</link>
		<comments>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/01/states-of-grace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portfolio]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lokidesign.net/2356/?p=3711</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the highlights of my trip back home over the holidays was the 2 hours of Super 8 footage that my dad had digitised of old home movies he shot back in the seventies and early eighties. My brother diligently edited it down to a shorter compilation, which I scored, and we shared some [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/01/states-of-grace/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>You were a true poet / down to your scarred knuckles</title>
		<link>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/01/you-were-a-true-poet-down-to-your-scarred-knuckles/</link>
		<comments>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/01/you-were-a-true-poet-down-to-your-scarred-knuckles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portfolio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading and writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lokidesign.net/2356/?p=3685</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago today, my friend and poet FA Nettelbeck died. A month earlier Four Minutes to Midnight published his final book of poetry, Happy Hour, with illustrations by Sophie Jodoin. I had planned to perhaps visit him over the holidays that year, take a trip with my brother down to the backwoods of Oregon, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/01/you-were-a-true-poet-down-to-your-scarred-knuckles/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>That New Design Smell</title>
		<link>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/01/that-new-design-smell/</link>
		<comments>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/01/that-new-design-smell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[inspirations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miscellaneous]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lokidesign.net/2356/?p=3672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following a certain line of thinking from my Ugliness article, I recently discovered the work of Michèle Champagne, designer and editor of the critical design magazine That New Design Smell. Michele is doing some really interesting work (out of Toronto!) that seems to share a lot of my current interests, though her expression of them [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/01/that-new-design-smell/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>New Year, New Portfolio</title>
		<link>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/01/new-year-new-portfolio/</link>
		<comments>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/01/new-year-new-portfolio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portfolio]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lokidesign.net/2356/?p=3652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the passing of the new year, and all the attendant reflection this entails, I&#8217;ve finally taken the time to revisit my portfolio pdf. The main goal of this redesign was to represent the growing diversity of my practice while highlighting the common threads (typography, poetics, collaboration, etc.) that tie my work together. The process [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2013/01/new-year-new-portfolio/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Trend List</title>
		<link>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2012/12/trend-list/</link>
		<comments>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2012/12/trend-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[inspirations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miscellaneous]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lokidesign.net/2356/?p=3640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In yesterday&#8217;s lengthy post I touched on notions of trend cycles in graphic design. And then I discovered Trend List, an amazing and overwhelming catalogue documenting current stylistic tendencies in graphic design. At the root of what I&#8217;m thinking about, and what I assume most graphic designers think about, is how cultural/political currents become embedded [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2012/12/trend-list/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Illegibility, Ugliness and Counter-Hegemony</title>
		<link>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2012/12/illegibilty-ugliness-and-counter-hegemony/</link>
		<comments>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2012/12/illegibilty-ugliness-and-counter-hegemony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 02:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading and writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[type and typography]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lokidesign.net/2356/?p=3534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A contentious spread from 032c issue #13 In my current phase of design research, I&#8217;ve been enjoying a wealth of ecclectic readings. My friend and craft theorist extraordinaire Nicole Burisch pointed me in the direction of Judith (or rather, Jack) Halberstam&#8216;s excellent introduction to The Queer Art of Failure. In referencing James C. Scott&#8217;s Seeing [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lokidesign.net/2356/2012/12/illegibilty-ugliness-and-counter-hegemony/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
