Category Archives: Quotations
A Design and Museums Reader #2
Whiteley, 1995
«Design doesn’t exist for its own sake – much to the disappointment of unreformed Modernists and some curators of white cubic museum. It exists, instead, in real lives, real situations, real places, and real time.»
Nigel Whiteley, Design History or Design Studies, in “Design Issues”, vol. 11, 1995, 1, Spring, pp. 38-42: 38.
photo: Alessandro Mendini’s Proust [...]
A Design and Museums Reader #1
Papanek, 1974
«It is most interesting to compare the many museum catalogues of “well-designed objects”. Whether printed in the twenties, thirties, fifties or seventies, the objects are usually the same: a few chairs, some automobiles, cutlery, lamps, ashtrays, and maybe a photograph of the ever-present DC-3 aeroplane. Innovation of new objects seems to go more and more [...]
Victor Margolin, Design for the 21st Century #1
… and a case study from Italy
Victor Margolin, Design for the 21st Century
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19.05.2009
discussion panel moderated by Steve Diskin
oraganisation by Petra Cerna Oven
«Design 21st Century, this is a very trendy title, but I did it on purpose. [...] Often you meet designers, and they want to talk about heavy theory, etc., and what the [...]
