June 29, 2007
David Report: Today’s Design Is Not Good Design
Form follows function? Yes, it should. At least that’s what the latest issue of David Report discusses. Their argument is that art has overpowered design – and products that have been showcased at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair prove their point:
Teapots in super size, huge Pinocchio dolls in mosaic, porcelain horse heads and knitted dogs.
It is obvious that this circus doesn’t have smart user-orientated and functional design as first priority any longer. Today it is probably more about showmanship. Media could partly be blamed for the sprawly superficiality, as a result of their stressful hunt for news.
Vulgarism is how David Report describes the “vacuum in the design industry”, comparing the difference between the creations of postmodernists in the 70s and 80s, to today’s overrated “design on dope”.
More at David Report.
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