Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard and its visual-political-cultural echoes on design-artistic practices and our daily lives. Declarations is a love letter to the crafts of designing with language.

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a growing collection of theoric references that situates the research point of vue

reader

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

on January 2021 craft declarativeness

Design tactique:

by Nolwenn Maudet (author) on March 2023 power-dynamics

A brief history of CSS until 2016

power-dynamics

Cascading HTML Style Sheets -- A Proposal

declarativeness

J. R. Carpenter || A Handmade Web

craft power-dynamics

My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?

craft metaphors

Film

declarativeness

Why Is CSS So Weird?

by (director) on October 2019 declarativeness

A Dao of Web Design

by John Allsopp (author) on April 2000 declarativeness

Dividing and sharing

craft power-dynamics

Basic HTML Is the New Punk Folk Explosion

by yr friend and mine Zach Mandeville! (author) craft power-dynamics

OSP (Open Source Publishing) → you’re traveling in up-pen-down

declarativeness

othertime

declarativeness

Frank Chimero · The Web’s Grain

by Frank Chimero (author) craft declarativeness

Semantics, Standards, and Sequential Art

craft metaphors

The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend

craft power-dynamics

Domain Naming

metaphors

practices shape tools shape practices

craft

Robin Rendle — The Cascade