Point-counterpoint: is fashion a serious subject?
Admit it. You love it. It matters.
New York Times, September 2, 2007
At S.F.’s de Young Museum, fashion exhibitions upset fine art fans
San Francisco Chronicle, September 1, 2007
Admit it. You love it. It matters.
New York Times, September 2, 2007
At S.F.’s de Young Museum, fashion exhibitions upset fine art fans
San Francisco Chronicle, September 1, 2007
Although it is true that designers generally rely on clients, pleasing them is not the ultimate purpose of our work. What designers share with our clients is a public, an audience. Our clients wouldn’t need us at all if we weren’t helping them reach that public. Our broader responsibility is to the ultimate users of our work.
Ellen Lupton, What Is Success? [Voice: AIGA Journal of Design]
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A house made of trees, that is. And not the dead kind (id est lumber), but the living, photosynthesizing kind. MIT architect Mitchell Joachim proposes weaving tree branches into walls, roofs, and lattices to make buildings (growings?) (via Sierra’s shared items in Google Reader)
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Making conscious choices as a consumer is an important step in changing your impact on the world. However, as George Monibot argues here, it’s only a preliminary step, and it doesn’t work for everyone. (via Sierra’s shared items in Google Reader)
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