Creativity is often understood to be intrinsically linked to the breaking of the norms and aesthetic systems that constitute the canons of artistic practices. Yet, can creativity still be understood that way in a world where breaking the norm seems to have become the norm? What traditional patterns are there left to break with, after so many years of iconoclasm?
In Breaking the Grid, the second issue of the Bachelor in Design’s Annual Journal, students critically reflect on these dynamics. The journal brings together a selection of the best essays written during the first and second year of the Bachelor in Design for the courses ‘History of Design’, ‘Design and Criticism’ and ‘Writing Skills’. They can each be seen as individual challenges and revisions that show the rich possibilities to be found in looking again at something that has been taken for granted for long. The layout and graphic design of our journal is also the result of the hard work of a talented team of design students. With this issue they show that thinking is not only expressed in words, but also in form – images, empty spaces and visual choices.
