June 8, 2008
WHAT IS GOOD DESIGN?:
What is good design? (Alice Rawsthorn, June 6, 2008, NY Times)
I've learned (the hard way) not to do it, but if random strangers - like taxi drivers, or whoever's sitting on the next airplane seat - ask what I do and I'm rash enough to confess to being a design critic, they invariably follow up with: "So what is good design?"The stock answer is that good design is generally a combination of different qualities - what it does, what it looks like, and so on. But as our expectations of design change, so do those qualities and the relationship between them.
Design that evolves. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 8, 2008 7:22 AM
Comments
Very timely. The new Design Star season starts in about a half hour. The most fun on television although Project Runaway is a close second.
The shows designed for the winners of the previous two seasons are disappointing. They're trying too hard and the room designs end up looking gimmicky instead of creative. I wonder how long it takes before clients bring their space back to planet earth.
Posted by: erp at June 8, 2008 7:42 PM