List of Design Manifestos (1883 - 2011)
- 1883 The Ideal Book, William Morris
- 1889 The Arts and Crafts of To-day, William Morris
- 1909 The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, F.T. Marinetti
- 1914 Manifesto of Futurist Architecture, Antonio Sant’Elia
- 1918 De Stijl Manifesto
- 1919 Bauhaus Manifesto, Walter Gropius
- 1919 Das grüne Manifest (“The Green Manifesto”), Leberecht Migge on the economic, political, and social importance of public gardens in urban environments
- 1920 Down with Seriousism!, Bruno Taut
- 1922 Manifesto of the Painters’ Union, Taller de Grafica Popular
- 1923 Topology of Typography, El Lissitzky
- 1923 The New Typography, László Moholy-Nagy
- 1933 Charter of Athens, Congres Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne
- 1959 The journal “New Graphic Design,” though not explicitly a manifesto, called for a radical rethinking of design along more scientific lines.
- 1964 First Things First, Ken Garland
- 1967 The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
- 1971 La coscienza del designer, Albe Steiner
- 1978 Atlante Secondo Lenin - not so much a design manifesto, as a designed manifesto. The innovative infographics visualize theories for gaining power.
- 1979 Ahmedabad Declaration on Industrial Design for Development
- 1983 The Free Software announcement, later clarified in 1985’s GNU Manifesto
- 1987 Design memorandum. Dall’etica del progetto al progetto dell’etica.
- 1987 Ten Rules of Good Design, Dieter Rams
- 1989 Carta del progetto grafico, Giovanni Anceschi, Giovanni Baule, Gelsomino D’Ambrosio, Pino Grimaldi, Giancarlo Iliprandi, Giovanni Lussu, Alberto Marangoni, Gianfranco Torri
- 1990 A Scandinavian Design Council Manifesto on Nature, Ecology and Human Needs for the Future
- 1991 The Social Role of the Graphic Designer, Pierre Bernard
- 1991 The Munich Design Charter
- 1991 The Riot Grrrl Manifesto, Kathleen Hanna
- 1992 The Hannover Principles, William McDonough
- 1996 Viewer’s Declaration of Independence
- 1998 Ne Pas Plier statement
- 1998 People’s Communication Charter
- 2000 The Manifesto of January 3, 2000, Bruce Sterling
- 2000 First Things First update - not just about advertising this time, but setting new values.
- 2000 Icograda Design Education Manifesto
- 2000 Incomplete Manifesto for Growth, Bruce Mau (though I thought Dean Allen did a tidy job of demolishing this.)
- 2001 Diseno etica e comunicazione, AIAP
- 2001 Socialist Designer’s Manifesto - a series of ideologically driven limitations along the lines of Dogme 95.
- 2001 Designers Against Monoculture, Noah Scalin
- 2001 Manifesto for Agile Software Development
- 2002 First Declaration of the St. Moritz Design Summit
- 2002 Triangular Design Manifesto, Conceptual Devices
- 2004 The Free Culture Manifesto
- 2005 Draft Craft Manifesto, Ulla Engeström
- 2006 The Public Role of the Graphic Designer
- 2006 Free Font Manifesto, Ellen Lupton
- 2006 Owner’s Manifesto, The Maker’s Bill of Rights
- 2007 The Designer’s Dilemma and subsequent Designers Accord
- 2007 1000 Words: A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design, Allan Chochinov
- 2007 Um Manifesto Anti-Design
- 2008 White Night Before A Manifesto, Metahaven
- 2008 Kyoto Design Declaration, Members of Cumulus
- 2008 Parametricism as Style - Parametricist Manifesto, Patrik Schumacher
- 2009 The Repair Manifesto from Platform21
- 2009 The Cult of Done Manifesto
- 2009 A Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention, Michael Erard
- 2009 Information Visualization Manifesto, Manuel Lima
- 2009 The Awesomeness Manifesto, Umair Haque
- 2009 Internet Manifesto: How journalism works today. Seventeen declarations.
- 2009 Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge, assembled at the Barcelona Culture Forum for citizens’ and artists’ Human Rights in the digital age
- 2009 Not In Our Name, Marke Hamburg! (English here)
- 2010 The Role of Design in the 21st Century, Danish Designers Manifesto: A Vision for the Future of Danish Design
- 2010 The Obstructionist Manifesto, Mark Goldman against harmful, insider-driven city planning
- 2010 Anti-Design Festival Manifesto
- 2010 The Win Without Pitching Manifesto, Blair Enns
- 2010 The Glimmer Manifesto, Warren Berger
- 2010 Big Potatoes: The London Manifesto for Innovation
- 2010 A Design Education Manifesto, Mitch Goldstein
- 2010 LeNS Project Manifesto, on sustainable development and the role of design (and design thinking) in promoting system innovation
- 2011 Post Typographic Manifesto
- 2011 Icograda Design Education Manifesto, 2011 (an update of their 2000 manifesto)
- 2011 Icograda Design Education Manifesto, 2011 (an update of their 2000 manifesto)
- 2011 No Chair Design Challenge, pledge to not design a chair in 2012.
And a few un-/anti- manifestos:
- 2008 Project H Design (Anti)Manifesto: A Call To Action For Humanitarian (Product) Design
- 2009 This is Not Manifesto — towards an alternative design practice - hard-hitting anarchist perspective
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