Commissioned essay on utopia/dystopia and design

I wrote an essay about how Bliss, the Windows XP default backdrop image, represented a ubiquitous utopian imaginary for PC users across the globe—a version that is no longer supported.

One of 18 perspectives on utopia for the Whatnot Studio, an exploratory course in the Designed Objects department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).

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Charles O’Rear, Bliss, 1996 — Charles O’Rear, *Bliss*, 1996

Noah Berger, Untitled [the Northern California Wildfires], 2017 — Noah Berger, *Untitled* [the Northern California Wildfires], 2017