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Issue 22

Surveillance
Urban Prisons Surveillance in the News The Street as Platform Networked Urbanism: Using Technology to Improve our Cities Ring of Steel Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers The Traveller Politicians Under Surveillance Intelligence Artifacts: A Selection of Objects from the CIA’s Museum Drone Survival Guide Let’s See Some Tits: Norway’s Distinctly Different Web Wildlife Program Surveillance Songs What Does Big Brother See, While He is Watching? A Look at the Secret Stasi Archives Abbott H. Thayer’s Vanishing Ducks: Surveillance, Art, and Camouflage H(id)den Materiality of Deletion Surveillance by Designers

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Surveillance by Designers

June 2, 2014

We asked a few great Chicago designers to give us their view of surveillance. Here is what they came up with.

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Mike McQuade

Surveillance has threatened any shred of privacy we as Americans once had. When we think of wallpaper, we think of warmth, safety and home, so weaving surveillance cameras into traditional wallpaper shows how inescapable the realities of surveillance have become.

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© Mike McQuade.

Alex Fuller

Sneaky creepy behind a book.

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© Alex Fuller.

Sneaky creepy takes a look.

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© Alex Fuller.

Sneaky creepy stares at night.

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© Alex Fuller.

Kyle Fletcher

Surveillance mandalas influenced by the tension between violence and (super)vision.

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© Kyle Fletcher.

JASON PICKLEMAN

Identities’ theft
left the bride stripped bare,
but that’s OK,cause J CREW is having a
Holiday Sale and everythingis 30% off!

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© Jason Pickleman.

Rick Valicenti with Baozhen Li / Thirst

Big Brother 1984 comes face to face with the Tank Man 1989 within a ring of the US Presidential stars. According to Wikipedia, the Tank Man, is the nickname of an anonymous man who stood in front of a column of tanks the morning after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests on June 5, 1989 by force.

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© Rick Valicenti with Baozhen Li / Thirst.

Rick Valicenti

Introducing the updated, more authentic and easily accessible, identity for the National Security Agency.

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© Rick Valicenti.

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Kyle Fletcher

Big brands by day, intimate art galleries by night. Kyle Fletcher, is a weathered optimist who knows how to put his midwestern nose to the conceptual grindstone. Excels in environments that are eager to explore the unknown.

Alex Fuller

Alex Fuller is one of seven partners in the artist collaborative called The Post Family, founder of 5×7 publishing, and a Design Director at the Leo Burnett Dept. of Design. Alex has worked with many blue chip clients including UPS, Sprint, and Allstate as well as independent innovators including Unison, Sonnenzimmer, and You Are Beautiful. Alex maintains a very active role in the art and design communities in Chicago whether it’s leading lectures and workshops with The Post Family or critiquing student work through the AIGA.

Baozhen Li

Baozhen Li is an industrial designer and 3D animator practicing at Thirst. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As an artist, she works in diverse mediums from painting to metal-working to digital media. Her work is on display throughout the city of Chicago and may currently be seen at the Illini Union of UIUC and in the atrium of Ogilvie Transportation Center.

Mike McQuade

Mike McQuade has over nine years of experiences as a multidisciplinary designer and illustrator. He believes that hard work, persistence, and a strong focus on craft leads to better work for his clients and other self-initiated projects. Mike describes his style as raw and always transforming. Mike is currently working as an art director, designer, and illustrator for both large and small brands, various ad agencies, editorial publications, design firms, start-ups, and his own self-initiated projects and artwork.

Jason Pickleman

Jason Pickleman is a graphic designer and partner at JNL Graphic Design based in Chicago. His clients include the Steppenwolf Theatre, Hyde Park Art Center, The Renaissance Society, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago Transit Authority, and Avec restaurant.

Rick Valicenti

Rick Valicenti is a producer, director, and collaborator working with a wide network of designers and artists. Formerly the founder and design director of Thirst, a venerable Chicago design studio, Valicenti is a recipient of the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA) Medal, 2006, and the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, 2011. Rick is also an invited member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale). His complete works are recently archived at the Newberry Library, and the Letterform Archive in San Francisco. Large selections of Valicenti’s work are at the Ryerson Library at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Lubalin Center at Cooper Union, and the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography at Art Center in Pasadena, California.