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- mrming0
Interesting article. I think we're all concentrating a lot more on function than we were three or four years ago but to try and say that there's an 'undesign' movement sounds like journalists looking for a pretext to write articles.
b3ta.com is wildly popular because it's funny. The pieces are made quickly and without much care because they are communicating whimsical ideas. The author of this article seems to be confusing humour with 'design'.The popularity of blogging is surely down to the fact that they give worldwide publishing power to anyone who wants it, which has resulted in some interesting reading. As the majority of bloggers are not designers most blogs take a no-nonsense approach to design and layout.
If anything this article shows that the web is coming of age in terms of content. Which is logical enough really.
Now that the businesses have been scared off by the web's failure to generate huge amounts of cash overnight, the web is growing from the bottom up with content published by indivuduals and small collectives.
Anyway I'm sure you already know all this, so I'm going to go and see if I can confuse my client into overlooking the fact that I've done no work by turning up with a page of 10pt verdana and calling it 'undesign'.
:-)