My friend Mark Owens of Life of the Mind has written a wonderful essay about Relational Aesthetics that you should read.

Here is a brief excerpt from his site describing the essay.

“A collection of graphic design studio portraits for Dot Dot Dot issue 7 . A willful misapplication of the term relational aesthetics is used to discuss the way studio portraits encode various organizational models.

From the hero and the office to the workshop, the firm and the free association, the design studio portrait stages both a set of specific relationships and a particular way of working.”