Drag Design
Drag Design stems from Pierre Azalbert's masters thesis, Designers, Let's Do Drag!. It is a speculative investigation into what happens when design lets go of function, tradition, and discipline. Inspired by the subversive logic of drag performance, it embraces contradiction, exaggeration, and transformation.
DISCIPLINES
Design Research
Critical Writing
Collaborators
Pierre Azalbert
Year
2018
Drawing from the aesthetics and politics of drag performance, the work 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, and more emotionally resonant design practice—one that dares to challenge not just what objects do, but what they mean.
