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| == Thesis template ==
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| This is a draft. Reading list [[User:Marlon/Graduate_Research_Seminar/thesis/reading | here]].
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| ====Name/title====
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| Liberating the Physical Template of the New Human
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| Message from Archangel Michael
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| Channeled by Meredith Murphy
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| Telepathic Transmission - 1/2 May 2012
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| ====Key question====
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| Some possibilities:
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| * Are templates presets that generate not just similar design, but also similar content?
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| * Do they liberate or limit their users?
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| * Do these templates signify a graphic design crisis?
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| ====Introduction====
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| Templates. Themes. Trends. Tropes.
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| ==65 High Quality Free Tumblr Themes==
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| ''Tumblr as main example: uses templates, has repetitive (stencil) content, new visual language, community aspect.''
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| Using Tumblr as an entry point or main example to draw out current situation/highlight interest in topic:
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| Popular micro-blogging service Tumblr, is quick and easy to use. Offers its users (free and pay-to-play) themes for the layout of their blogs. Its use is quite varied: from making friends and maintaining personal blogs and fansites to professional design portfolios. There is a lot of repetitive –symbolised by the never-ending scrolling layout– content, partly due to its 'reblogging' feature. Blogs are often dedicated to one topic, phenomena or filetype (see: "selfies at funerals"). Multiple blogs with the same purpose, name, style ("fuckyeah1990s", "fuckyeahdykes", "fuckyeahmiyazaki", etc).
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| ==Template==
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| ''Templates and themes in a web environment: what are they, why do they exist, how do they work?''
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| * Customisable! Templates are restricting because they have to be. This is how they limit designers.
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| * Content and form, the interplay, the boundaries.
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| ==Stencil==
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| ''A template is easy to use, but its limitations guarantee a similarity in content. We enjoy this, because it requires us to think less.''
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| * Following (imitating) the norm. Repetition, memes, multiples.
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| * Experience and lifestyle design: promoting yourself, designing your life, painting your existence more beautiful.
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| * Advertisement and promotion, trends, aesthetics.
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| ==Graphic design==
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| ''Not everyone is a (graphic) designer, but everyone can at least have the experience. Thanks to the templates, downloadable designs, mockups and apps, everyone can pretend to be one. Design performing."
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| Subtopics:
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| * Downloadable and open design and its relation to free software.
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| * User and producer future? Designing not the work, but the tools, the templates, "the user-friendly environment".
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| * Mode of production, ownership.
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| ==Visual essay==
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| Pics or it didn't happen.
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| ==Conclusion==
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| ''Ambiguity, there are good and bad templates?''
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