Scott Klinker contemplates fashion, design, and radical experiments

http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/beyond_fashion_reviving_experimental_design_by_scott_klinker_9171.asp

Link: Beyond Fashion: Reviving Experimental Design, by Scott Klinker.

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"Design is Flat, the Market is Sophisticated and Extreme

"Consequently, 'High Design' is no longer an exclusive club that turns up its nose at consumerism. Conceptual, poetic products have found their way to every price point in the market. Where student dreamers used to push the market with experimental thinking, now the market moves faster than student imaginations. Ideas, forms, and paradigms move fast in a networked environment, quickly revealing the difference between easy trends and authentic authorship. Now 'authored' design must answer highly specific questions with researched answers, dead-on form, and a good bit of self-promotion, to rise above the din of a sophisticated market. Aspiring theoretical designers compete with deep-pocketed culture-making armies like Apple, Google and Alessi...."

(((One of Scott's students hard at work.)))