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Is it time we take design more seriously?

Sunday, 07 February 2010 14:28

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I came across a really interesting article today via the TFIA twitter account. The article is a very intellectual discussion on books available on this topic. Books that speak about design regarding how it is, or is not, taken seriously. Books which ask the question: Is it time we take design seriously?

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Design is a word that is increasingly diffuse in its application, used in myriad contexts, occasionally spurious, occasionally absurd. From the “designer” jeans and must-have lemon-squeezers of the 1980s, to “designer” drugs and “process design”, the word has been applied liberally to branded consumables and management-speak. Its most recent high-profile use has been in the notion of intelligent design, which transforms God into a creative. En route, we have become familiar with fonts, web layouts and graphic techniques that were formerly the preserve of trained graphic designers. In the astonishing array of “design” objects we now own, from iPhones, shoes and handbags to coffee-makers and cars, we consume design at an unprecedented rate, and are intimately familiar with its vocabulary and its tropes. You can now even buy “design art”, a weird hybrid of the useful, the useless and the very, very expensive.

To read the entire article visit the Financial Times.



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Is it time we take design more seriously?
Sunday, 07 February 2010
I came across a really interesting article today via the TFIA twitter account. The article is a very intellectual discussion on books available on this topic. Books that speak about design regarding how it is, or is not, taken seriously. Books which ask the question: Is it time we take design...

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#1 forex 2010-02-17 14:56
What a great resource!
 

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