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I started this blog to try and discover what good design meant to me. Over the years i have been attending many design exhibitions and have been being increasingly frustrated and bored of what I come away with. Can what is on display really be what represents current design? Is this the pinnacle of the modern day designer?
Designers have a responsibility to their fellow people to develop objects that have a need and a purpose. This purpose can be either practical or emotional and in the ideal case both. I believe that much of design has become self-involved with the end aim being recognition and fame. So much design produced by designers falls into the trap of one line design. Objects whose sole purpose is to grip the attention of the public and media just for a brief moment by means of a smirk or a giggle before being tossed onto the pile of other landfill design objects are becoming a regular feature of many exhibition. You don’t become a renowned designer overnight and we as designers should not design with this intention. As a fellow designer and friend put it; design was originally developed by and for industry such as companies like Braun, then design teams like Ideo can along and designed for the people, now designers design for wallpaper magazine.
Good design is in the eye of the beholder just like beauty. We all have very different ideas as to what good design is because we all have different needs, wants and desires. In order to fulfil this situation designers need to look at people, study them, their environments and cultures. This is not anything new. Its been around for years. I just think it important to remind others and myself that it has not changed and is still at the core of what we should do. What is new are the design results. They continue to grow and develop and this blog aims to show them and celebrate them, the object, and not the designers behind them.
