"'Totally. That's why I do feel like it's a challenge to the design world to reassess what we're producing, why we're producing it, and how we could do it better. Do we really need all this stuff?' asks Hustwit, in a way he knows his question isn't even a question. 'San Francisco is the center of the design world, packed with all these people, and they're listening to this 86-year-old German guy in his backyard for an hour and a half, about like, how they're fucking up. And they're loving it, and they're laughing!'"
Mark Wilson at Fast Company writes about a new documentary about designer Dieter Rams.
And Harry McCracken offers an obit for designer Charles Harrison, who died in November.
Thursday, December 06, 2018
As Little as Possible
Labels:
Chicago,
cultural history,
design,
Germany,
movies,
obituaries,
race and ethnicity,
technology,
toys,
twentieth century
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