November 5, 2007
Tom Dixon: We Need An Anti-Design Movement
The NY Times carries a profile of Tom Dixon and his work. In the article Dixon (again) hints at his call for a movement against modern design:
Today, he says, the challenge facing designers is how to establish an opposition to convention when, as he says, “everything is legitimate and fashionable. There doesn’t seem to be an anti-design movement, and there should be. Everyone is trying to be Marc Newson and sell a million-dollar chair.” That deal, which made news beyond the design world, seemed to establish contemporary design as art itself. “I have my suspicions that design is not art,” Dixon says.
Re-Arranging the Furniture - New York Times
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