dutch design
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that's all really nice.. but i always wonder if it is good to just look at Dutch design and say: oooh it is sooo good...
i mean, isn't it time to define your own brilliance?
it's great to take this as inspiration, but it makes it so competition like..
as if there is no good design in the US for instance..
well there's a lot of crap coming from there, but there's also a huge amount of rubbish being made in the Netherlands, but you don't see it..There's great designers here, just as there are great designers in the UK, Italy, US etc.etc.
it has also a lot to do with the fact that the govt. used(!) to spend a lot of taxmoney on design- and art-initiatives..
so many artists with great independent works that are not so commercially interesting could spend time on their projects while still having some money to live etc.
i wonder if this is/was the case in a lot of other countries..
perhaps an interesting topic for discussion..