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Posted by Steve Portigal | 14 Sep 2006
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Allison Arieff's new Living Design in the NYT is a nice overview of the contribution of design, as she says - functional, playful, doing good, responsible, comfortable, useful. And then a sad comment from a reader
How important is design to me? I was willing to pay 3 times the price for my toaster (Siemens, designed by Porsche), which in addition to making toast, very well, is also a beautiful object to grace my kitchen, so providing visual pleasure as well as a purpose...
Gah! Phhtphht! Missing the point! Posturing and snob-appeal was not in her list! There's the design meme for ya - even when someone steps forward and explains that design is about elegant problem solving, someone else steps forward and uses that as a platform to (pretend to) agree and tell us that design is how they prove they are better than the rest of us!
THREE TIMES THE PRICE (and from Porsche)?
Gah!
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Why the surprise. Plenty of posturing in some of the stuff posted on Core: http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/shots_by_jp_meulendijks_4518.asp