http://www.id-mag.com/article/turning-tables
Rosanne Somerson, professor of furniture design at Rhode Island School of Design, counters: “Design needs an audience. When we talk about the market, we have to look at who is supporting such enterprises. The majority of moneyed buyers in America still buy antiques. This is in part about education, not of the designers but of the public.” [Turning the Tables, ID]
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http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/03/16/style/t/index.html
“One problem is the fragmented nature of design education in America. Furniture design tends to be taught in art schools here rather than with other design disciplines, as it is in top European schools like Eindhoven in the Netherlands and Britain’s Royal College of Art. [Paola] Antonelli, for one, believes that American design students would benefit from more exposure to other disciplines such as engineering.” [Alice Rawsthorn | Dearth of a Nation, NYT]
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Debbie [Millman] asks: Why do you think so many people wear black in New York City?
Massimo replies: Because of the image.
Debbie Millman: How would you describe it?
Massimo Vignelli: To begin with, black has class. It’s the best color. This is no other color that is better than black. There are many other colors that are appropriate and happy but those colors belong on flowers. Black is a color that is man-made. It is really a projection of the brain. It is a mind color. It is intangible. It is practical. It works 24 hours a day. In the morning or the afternoon, you can dress in tweed, but in the evening, you look like a professor who has escaped from a college. Everything else has connotations that are different, but black is good for everything. My house is covered in black.
Debbie Millman: Are all your clothes black? Do you wear all black?
Massimo Vignelli: Yes. Always. Always.
From Millman, Debbie. How to think like a great graphic designer (New Yorker: Allworth Press, 2007, 214-215). | via Grant McCracken, And here I was thinking it was a pretension
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If famous Belgian artist Luc Tuymans installs his art as a mural on a busy pedestrian street, will people stop and notice? Says Tuymans, “Art is about creating images and passing on ideas. If it succeeds to make people think, even for a few seconds, it has done a lot already.”
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Design thinkers like to wax lyrical about the elegance of their strategic thinking as a form of design in its own right, as though this could ever be a substitute. They can keep it— in 2108, if there are museums then, no one will queue to see a strategy. Give me something tangible, something brilliant and extraordinary that illuminates our perception of what human life can be. For that, we still need designers.
Rick Poynor, Down with Innovation [I.D.]
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