Linda Rampell Explained

Linda Rampell, born 5 December 1971, in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish design theorist, critic, lecturer and author.^{[1] [2]} She holds a PhD at Lund University. In her PhD 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

• Modebedrägeriet: Dräktdockan som inte finns (2024). Fashion Fraud: The Fashion Doll That Does Not Exist (written in Swedish). Gabor Palotai Design.
• Vera von Toth: En skönhetskirurgs monolog (2019). Vera von Toth: A Beauty Surgeon’s Monologue (written in Swedish). Gabor Palotai Design / A+O Publishing.
• The Shopmodern Condition (2016). Gabor Palotai Design / Art & Theory Publishing.
• Designatlas. En resa genom designteori 1845–2002 (2013). Gabor Palotai Publisher. Summary in English: Atlas of Design: A Journey Through Design Theory pp. 679–695.
• Freud med skalpell. Modekropp prêt-à-suppôter Homo Kapitalismus II (2008). Gabor Palotai Publisher.
• Designdarwinismen™ Homo Kapitalismus I (2007). Gabor Palotai Publisher.
• CODE Manifest (2003). Co-written with Lars O Ericsson. Gabor Palotai Publisher.
• Designatlas. En resa genom designteori 1845–2002 (2003). Gabor Palotai Publisher. Summary in English: Atlas of Design: A Journey Through Design Theory pp. 761–781).
• 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).

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/text in Cosmos by Gábor Palotai (2019). Gabor Palotai Publisher.
• Foreword/text in Zoo by Gábor Palotai (2017). Gabor Palotai Publisher.
• Foreword in Odysseus. A graphic Design Novel by Gábor Palotai (2007). Gabor Palotai Publisher.
• Foreword in Gábor Palotai: 111 Posters (2007). Gestalten Verlag.

Notes and References

1. Atle Bjarnestam, Eva (2005). De formade 1900-talet, p. 183. Natur & Kultur.
2. Konceptdesign (2005), pp. 148–149, ed. Cilla Robach, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
3. Her PhD thesis is reissued in Designatlas. En resa genom designteori 1845–2002 (2003) with a summary in English: Atlas of Design: A Journey Through Design Theory pp. 761–781. Gabor Palotai Publisher.
4. Akner-Koler, Cheryl (2007). Form & Formlessness, Chapter 2, "Theoretical Framework" p. 13, Chalmers University of Technology.
5. Towards a Fashion Diagnosis, The Nordic Textile Journal, Vol. 1 2010
6. Designdarwinismen™ Homo Kapitalismus I (2007). Gabor Palotai Publisher.
7. Swedish Profiles, NK Exhibition of "Sweden's Leading Design Profiles" http://www.scandinaviandesign.com/nk/swedishprofiles.htm.
8. [Sigtuna]