Frankendesign has for 15 years been the partnership of graphic designers Michael Forsythe and David Thompson.
Although content on this website may be disproportionally not about our graphic design, it is about the dissemination of information, a sine qua non of our field.
'Frankendesign' is a common term used to describe the dysfunctional array of aesthetics being broadcast to a public indifferent to where the information originates and how it is delivered. Furthermore, most frankendesign is created by this very public, unknowingly promoting the abuse of misinformation and misrepresentation by gleaning the junkyards of discarded graphic design absent of context and void of purpose.
Partly in jest, we adorn this moniker as we feed the gutless industry which subjugates itself to its own demise. On the other hand, the individual efforts as well as collaborations of Frankendesign serve as a collective creative outlet for the experimental as well as the proven techniques and aesthetics of our industry—an industry which does little to embrace the educational essence of communication and the inherent humanity in art. From the midst of the industrial revolution of graphic design, we create frankendesign.