Articles
Archive of posts and articles.
The Web of Issues
On design as argumentation, and why the process is the work.
The Brief Always Arrives Wrong
On why the profession will not run out of work simply because machines have learned to make things.
Raising the Bar: What Design Event Organisers Can Actually Do
The critique of design festival culture is not a call for austerity or exclusion. It is an argument for intentionality.
The Festivalization of Design: A Critique of Spectacle Over Substance
Design occupies an already precarious position in the hierarchy of professional disciplines and cannot afford to be cavalier about how it presents itself to the world.
Marketing Masquerading as Design
A critique of how automobile design discourse slips into marketing language, obscuring design rationale behind emotional and aspirational vocabulary.