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Beware the Backlash: A rising tide of disaffection towards design

Posted By admin On 23/02/2007 @ 12:48 am In Design (general), Articles, News | No Comments

Article by Kevin McCullagh

There’s a storm brewing in designland. A backlash is gathering momentum, and what’s more, some of its chief dissidents are design’s leading lights.

Philippe Starck sheepishly peered out of the cover of December’s Icon magazine, under the [1] ‘I killed design’ banner. In an [2] Observer article a few months earlier Stephen Bailey, the fiery British design critic, exclaimed “When I hear the word ‘designer’, I reach for my chainsaw.”

[3] More…

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URLs in this post:
[1] ‘I killed design’: http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/042/starck.htm
[2] Observer article: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,1866747,00.html
[3] More…: http://www.core77.com/reactor/01.07_backlash.asp

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