David C. Stairs
David C. Stairs (born 1952) is an illustrator, book artist, and design instructor.[1][2][3]
Early life[edit]
Stairs was born in Syracuse, NY. He is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1975) and the University of Oregon (MFA 1993).[citation needed]
Work[edit]
From 1988 to 1991 Stairs’ work frequently appeared in Northwest Magazine of The Oregonian. From 1991 to 2001 Stairs was art editor of Northwest Review.[citation needed]
Stairs has produced fifteen artist's books since 1980, several of which are in the collection of the New York Public Library,[4] and the University of Oregon Design Library[5][6][7][8], among others. One of the titles, “Boundless,” has been the subject of numerous reviews and anthologies,[9] including in Johanna Drucker's The Century of Artists’ Books.[10]
Since 1997 Stairs’ design essays have appeared both in print and online, including in Design Issues, Leonardo, and Design Observer. His 1997 essay “Biophilia and Technophilia,” was reprinted in the 2010 Bloomsbury Publishing’s anthology, The Designed World.[11]
In 2000 Stairs received a Fulbright Program grant to Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. During this stay in Africa he founded Designers Without Borders (2001), an organization dedicated to assisting individuals and organizations in the developing world.[12] In 2002 Stairs was the subject of an article in HOW Magazine’s international edition.[13] In 2003 Stairs and his partner Sydnee Mackay received an award from Sappi Fine Papers Ideas That Matter[14] program in support of DWB activity.
In 2006, the year he began to post articles on Design Observer, Stairs founded the Design-Altruism-Project weblog,[15] an online forum for discussions relating to social design initiatives. His 2007 essay on Design Observer, “Why Design Won’t Save the World,” a critique of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s Design for the Other 90% exhibit, proved controversial. In 2009, after posting the essay “Arguing with Success” at Design-Altruism-Project, Stairs was invited to debate Designer's Accord founder Valerie Casey on the Change Observer section of Design Observer.[16]
In 2012 Stairs received a Fulbright grant to India. The essay which resulted from that research, “Journeying Through the Sacred Profane,” appeared on Design Observer [17]in 2013.
Stairs has taught graphic design and art and design history at Central Michigan University since 1994. He lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
Publications[edit]
- Biophilia and Technophilia (1997, DesignIssues; 2010, The Designed World, Bloomsbury)[18]
- Design and Deforestation (1998, Leonardo)[19]
- Okuwangaala (2002, DesignIssues)[20]
- Altruism as Design Methodology (2005, DesignIssues)[21]
- One Axle or Two? An ICSID Interdesign in South Africa (2006 DesignIssues)[22]
- Why Design Won’t Save the World (2007, Design Observer)
- Post-Professional (2008, Design-Altruism-Project)
- Arguing with Success (2009, Design-Altruism-Project)
- The Visual Representation of the Human Genome (2012, DesignIssues)[23]
- Journeying Through the Sacred Profane (2013, Change Observer)
- Designing Ourselves to Death (forthcoming in 2020 in Ethics in Design and Communication from Bloomsbury)
References[edit]
- ↑ Chick, Anne; Micklethwaite, Paul (2011). Design for Sustainable Change. Lausanne: AVA. pp. 68–69. ISBN 978-2-940411-30-6. Search this book on
- ↑ Krier, Sophie (2010). I don't know where I'm going but I want to be there. Amsterdam: BIS. pp. 31–32. ISBN 978-90-6369-257-5. Search this book on
- ↑ Fishel, Catherine (2005). 401 design meditations (1st ed.). Gloucester, MA.: Rockport. p. 18. ISBN 1-59253-127-X. Search this book on
- ↑ Stairs, David. "Oblivion". New York Public Library. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Stairs, David. "Casein". University of Oregon Design Library. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Stairs, David. "Boundless". University of Oregon Design Library. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Stairs, David. "My Art Book". University of Oregon Design Library. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Stairs, David. "Asperity". University of Oregon Design Library. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Casper, Scott; Chaison, Joanne; Groves, Jeffrey, eds. (2002). Perspectives on American Book History. Boston: University of Massachusetts. pp. 388, 398. ISBN 1-55849-317-4. Search this book on
- ↑ Drucker, Johanna (2004). The Century of Artists' Books (2nd ed.). New York: Granary Books. pp. 177–178. ISBN 1-887123-02-4. Search this book on
- ↑ Buchanan, Richard; Doordan, Dennis; Margolin, Victor, eds. (2010). The Designed World. Images, Objects, Environments. Oxford: Oxford International Publishers. pp. 339–345. ISBN 978-1-84788-585-2. Search this book on
- ↑ Berman, David (2009). Do Good Design. Berkeley, CA.: Pearson. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-321-57320-9. Search this book on
- ↑ Davis, Susan E. (April 2002). "Design Without Borders". HOW. XVII: 180–185. ISSN 0886-0483.
- ↑ Stairs, David; Mackay, Sydnee. "Ideas That Matter Past Winners". sappi.com. Sappi Fine Papers. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ San Martin, Macarena; Vilaseca, Estel, eds. (2009). Blogs, Mad about Design. Barcelona: Page One. pp. 194–195. ISBN 978-981-245-715-8. Search this book on
- ↑ Lasky, Julie (2009). "The Kindness of Strangers". Design Observer. Observer Omnimedia LLC.
- ↑ Stairs, David (2013). "Journeying Through the Sacred Profane". Design Observer. Observer Omnimedia. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Stairs, David (Autumn 1997). Buchanan, Richard; Doordan, Dennis; Margolin, Victor, eds. "Biophilia and Technophilia: Examining the Nature/Culture Split in Design Theory". Design Issues. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press. 13 (3): 37–44. doi:10.2307/1511939. ISSN 0747-9360. JSTOR 1511939.
- ↑ Stairs, David (August 1999). Gessert, George, ed. "Design and Deforestation". Leonardo. 32 (4): 273–279. doi:10.1162/002409499553424. ISSN 0024-094X.
- ↑ Stairs, David (Summer 2002). Buchanan, Richard; Doordan, Dennis; Margolin, Victor, eds. "Okuwangaala: The Persistent Vitality of the Vernacular". Design Issues. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press. 18 (3): 70–88. doi:10.1162/074793602320223316. ISBN 0-262-75915-2. ISSN 0747-9360.
- ↑ Stairs, David (Spring 2005). Buchanan, Richard; Doordan, Dennis; Margolin, Victor, eds. "Altruism as Design Methodology". Design Issues. MIT Press. 21 (2): 3–12. doi:10.1162/0747936053630214. ISBN 0-262-75926-8.
- ↑ Stairs, David (Autumn 2006). Brown, Bruce; Buchanan, Richard; Doordan, Dennis; Margolin, Victor, eds. "One Axle or Two? An ICSID Interdesign in South Africa". Design Issues. MIT Press. 22 (4): 81–96. doi:10.1162/desi.2006.22.4.81. ISBN 0-262-75932-2. ISSN 0747-9360.
- ↑ Stairs, David (Autumn 2012). Brown, Bruce; Buchanan, Richard; DiSalvo, Carl; Doordan, Dennis; Margolin, Victor, eds. "The Visual representation of the Human Genome". Design Issues. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press. 28 (4): 57–68. doi:10.1162/DESI_a_00175. ISSN 0747-9360.
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