Will Design Ever Be Better Understood?
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okay! finally had time to read this! phew!
sounds like a great discussion last night, or at least the beginning of one. and, at heart, it points to the perpetual situation of design as a rogue sibling surfing on the cusp between high and low art.
i think that always being in danger of wiping out on one side or the other is always good. and i think not knowing is also good.
but there is something really scary and dangerous about the industry being co-opted by capitalism in the same way that leni riefenstahl and heimat cinema was co-opted by the nazi regime (don't get crazy on me, it's just an analogy).
i guess what i wonder is whether or not a day will come when we have to recuperate everything we do from a smudgy marketeering legacy...
kark! i guess i'm a pessimist.