Drag Design
When design lets go of function, tradition, and discipline.
Design-language innovation drawing on the craft of drag.
Drawing from the aesthetics and politics of drag performance, Drag Design proposes a new design language — one that is performative, excessive, and deliberately disobedient. Through written research, Pierre explores how drag can be used as a design method: exaggerating, disrupting, and reassembling the codes of everyday products.
The thesis received a distinction from the Royal College of Art and was praised for its originality, craft, and conceptual clarity. More than a design project, Drag Design is a manifesto for a queerer, weirder, more emotionally resonant design practice — one that dares to challenge not just what objects do, but what they mean.
- Year
- 2018
- Category
- Research
- Capabilities
- Design Research
- Critical Writing
