Linda Rampell

Linda Rampell, born 5 December 1971, in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish design theorist, critic, lecturer and author.^[1][2] She holds a Ph.D. at Lund University. In her Ph.D. thesis she deconstructs the modernist discourse of nationalist design in Sweden.^[3][4] In her postdoctoral research project Homo Capitalistes, she concludes that ”the only ism after postmodernism is consumerism”, and that the postmodern condition has become a shopmodern condition, in which aesthetics and economics have merged into aesthetonomics, which defines an economy of seeing evaluating how much a being is worth.^[5][6] Rampell is a member of International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and has written articles, essays and books on the subject design theory.^[7][8]

Bibliography

• The Shopmodern Condition (2016). Gabor Palotai Design / Art & Theory Publishing. ISBN 978-91-639-0007-5
• Designatlas. En resa genom designteori 2002–2002 (2013). Gabor Palotai Publisher. Summary in English: Atlas of Design: A Journey Through Design Theory pp. 679–695. ISBN 978-91-637-3973-6
• Freud med skalpell. Modekropp prêt-à-suppôter Homo Kapitalismus II (2008). Gabor Palotai Publisher. ISBN 978-91-976557-2-9
• Designdarwinismen™ Homo Kapitalismus I (2007). Gabor Palotai Publisher. ISBN 978-91-976557-1-2
• CODE Manifest (2003). Co-written with Lars O Ericsson. Gabor Palotai Publisher. ISBN 978-91-631-4276-5
• Designatlas. En resa genom designteori 2002–2002 (2003). Gabor Palotai Publisher. Summary in English: Atlas of Design: A Journey Through Design Theory pp. 761–781). ISBN 91-631-3399-7
• A Critical Investigation of the Modernist Project of Design in Sweden (2002). Dissertation written in Swedish with a summary in English, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Division of Art History and Visual Studies, Lund University
• ZOO (2000). Gabor Palotai Publisher (2000). ISBN 978-91-630-9945-8

Selection of Essays in English

• Universal Design: Megalomania and Hypocrisy, pp. 18–21, Design Matters Vol. 7 2004, published by Danish Design Centre.
• The Myth of Swedish and Scandinavian Design, pp. 48–51, Design Matters Vol 3 2003, published by Danish Design Centre.
• Andrea Branzi: ’Out with the Blonde and Perfect Design!’, pp. 70–75, Design Matters, Vol 4 2004 published by Danish Design Centre.
• Towards a Fashion Diagnosis, The Nordic Textile Journal, Vol. 1 2010, published by The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås.
• Foreword in Odysseus. A graphic Design Novel by Gábor Palotai (2007). Gabor Palotai Publisher. ISBN 978-91-631-6651-8
• Foreword in Gábor Palotai: 111 Posters (2007). Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 978-91-976557-0-5

Notes

1. Atle Bjarnestam, Eva (2005). De formade 1900-talet, p. 183. Natur & Kultur. ISBN 91-27-10778-7
2. Konceptdesign (2005), pp. 148-149, ed. Cilla Robach, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. ISBN 91-7100-726-1
3. Her Ph.D thesis is reissued in Designatlas. En resa genom designteori 2002-2002 (2003) with a summary in English: Atlas of Design: A Journey Through Design Theory pp. 761-781. Gabor Palotai Publisher. ISBN 91-631-3399-7
4. Akner-Koler, Cheryl (2007). Form & Formlessness, Chapter 2, "Theoretical Framework” p. 13, Chalmers University of Technology. ISBN 978-91-976644-6-2
5. Towards a Fashion Diagnosis, The Nordic Textile Journal, Vol. 1 2010
6. Designdarwinismen™ Homo Kapitalismus I (2007). Gabor Palotai Publisher. ISBN 978-91-976557-1-2
7. Swedish Profiles, NK Exhibition of ”Sweden's Leading Design Profiles” http://www.scandinaviandesign.com/nk/swedishprofiles.htm.
8. Sigtuna Literature Festival 2014 http://sigtunalitteraturfestival.se/medverkande/linda-rampell/