Icon's newest issue has an article by the Icon team listing/describing all the reasons why the design professions (industrial/architectural or otherwise) need to experience a deflation... Icon
fantastic article.
although one could be called communist to wish such uncomfortable times upon our own professions, i couldn't agree more.
thanks namhenderson.
Um, let's not romaticize recessions too much since we're likely heading into one, OK?
The article makes some decent enough point if only they weren't so submerged in cooler-than-thou posturing. Yes, our culture is excessively consumerist. Yes, design is being overused as gimmicky marketing. Yes, Dubai is repulsive. So can Icon offer any solutions?
seems like constructivist modernist propaganda! //which i don't mind, actually/// I agree that design in general needs to rediscover humility, but i really doubt a recession is the proper catalyst for change.
design would be the first thing to go in a recession here in the trenches...it wouldn't be "reset" and cleaned...it would just be ignored.
fear not! even in a recession, our tax system, as well as billionaire friendly points of departure, will always coddle those that just have to have a marc newsom hanky or a zaha shoe horn. the rich get richer, and they look great!
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fantastic article.
although one could be called communist to wish such uncomfortable times upon our own professions, i couldn't agree more.
thanks namhenderson.
Nothing beats recession driven paper architecture from the 70's.. was there ever a better time for architectural representation?
Um, let's not romaticize recessions too much since we're likely heading into one, OK?
The article makes some decent enough point if only they weren't so submerged in cooler-than-thou posturing. Yes, our culture is excessively consumerist. Yes, design is being overused as gimmicky marketing. Yes, Dubai is repulsive. So can Icon offer any solutions?
seems like constructivist modernist propaganda! //which i don't mind, actually/// I agree that design in general needs to rediscover humility, but i really doubt a recession is the proper catalyst for change.
design would be the first thing to go in a recession here in the trenches...it wouldn't be "reset" and cleaned...it would just be ignored.
fear not! even in a recession, our tax system, as well as billionaire friendly points of departure, will always coddle those that just have to have a marc newsom hanky or a zaha shoe horn. the rich get richer, and they look great!
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