Silvio Lorusso
@silvio_lorusso
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design, more or less. asst. prof. @ctrotherworlds, wrote Entreprecariat (2019), What Design Can't Do (2023), misc: https://t.co/Kqn61ll31Z
Joined June 2010
#ai: what you call weird is kitsch, what you call kitsch might be weird. Here's the transcript of a talk given at the Hidden Layers conference on the 14th of June:
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Is AI useful or not? To answer that, you shouldn't imagine a fully focused and energized version of yourself making use of it. Rather, picture yourself swamped, tired, and in a rush. That's how you'll get an honest answer.
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RT @studio__aaa: i don't understand Adobe's approach to AI at all. they don't wanna raise the bar for what's possible with Photoshop, they….
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An American Psycho-inspired business card will be attached to the cover of the Korean edition of Entreprecariat, published by The Flexibility Club. But what does Patrick Bateman has to do with precarious entrepreneurialism?
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If cuneiform spreadsheets are your jam, if you are a Nanni or Ea-Nasir simp, if you've ever forged a signature to skip school, then you can't miss Chris Lee's Designing History book. Here's my foreword:
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As a design educator and a gamer, I think of this a lot.
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RT @idilgalip: 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀.I'm looking for an academic job in the netherlands in digital media, digital culture etc. Any tips or recommendation….
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RT @j_camachor: I wrote something about designers, political agency, and forms of organization. It was triggered and inspired by @silvio_l….
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An essay on what designers could do
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RT @venturetwins: I can't code and I'm not a designer. But I managed to create this cool, interactive website with @figma's new prompt-to-….
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I wrote a short article on the "sketchy realism" of AI images, that is, the operational mismatch where, due to their photorealism, images meant as sketches or rough prototypes are intuitively perceived as finished products.
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Went on Ebay and got a mysterious flyer showing a free interpretation (in Italian!) of Victor Papanek's pseudo-conspiratorial diagrams, replete with pencil notes. The flyer is now accessible on both here: and here:
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