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The Financial Times salutes the designers who focus on the 'supernormal', even as what they refer to as 'designart' makes too much noise and often drowns out the quality work quietly going on around the world. Here's a snippet,

A few years in, it is clear that designart, despite its bulky name, is here to stay. Larger manufacturers might be holding discreet credit crunch meetings but the panic has yet to trickle down to affect any tightening of purse strings when it comes to big-name creatives making lavish design. Yet, the often overpowering noise of designart does tend to drown out much other design. Which is why Wallpaper* has taken this opportunity to salute the designers that have trodden a more functional path: one that hasn't necessarily brought them fame, stardom or column inches but whose pieces are quietly being seen and, more importantly, being used every day.

[photocredit: Financial Times]