August 2009
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Is IKEA Bauhaus?
There is a provocative essay in the Design Observer today relating both to the Bauhaus, our predecessor institution, and to sustainability. I encourage ID folks to read it and participate in the comment thread. http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=10397 David Barringer Is There Bauhaus in IKEA? Posted 08.27.09 ….In the first half of the twentieth century, design reacted to...
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“Ideas about how things should be are often embedded within the persuasive...”
– Relating to design’s social and political engagement. From Design Act’s press release, a conference on design in Lisbon organized by Sweden’s IASPIS.
I love this sentence right now.
More on them here and here