How come most designers suck?
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Well, I'm not a McLuhan expert, but I think one thing he was onto was the notion that truth and objectivity would dwindle in popularity, being favored instead by popular opinion, comfort, excitement, etc.
I see your point. I only gave a partial characterization of postmodernism in design—a thing that is by very definition broad and multifaceted. I'm a big supporter of the positive effects postmodernism has wrought: eclectic solutions and ways of arriving at them; cross-breeding of cultural and historical references; dynamic identities; etc.
Practically speaking, I'm thankful for postmodernism, because very few of the design gurus in the world still think everything should be set in Helvetica, or that every company's color should be PMS 485 red. As if a single stylistic approach could be one-size-fits-all (or that all vestiges of style could possibly be shed. This too is false).