Design Fads

We've seen Green Design.
We've seen Universal Design.
We've seen Web Site Design.

Are these simply "Design Fads" or are they serious areas of study? Flash in the pan or classics? What do you think? If they are fads, what might the next one be? Go ahead, take a guess!

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Melissa - <www.balloon2001 < a t > yahoo.com> - BeverlyHills California

I think with the proliferation of images that a North American is deluged with on a continuous basis that these images become more and more meaningless. The more we see the less we want to see and the less important the visuals become. That is why we can see something really horrible on the news nowadays and not be shocked as people would have generations ago.

B. White - <blaine_white < a t > hotmail.com> - Toronto Canada

gene design and genetic engineering will be the next fad. it will come and go when we realise its limitations.

simon - <blank please> - dublin ireland

i love jncos, kik wear, pornstar, pervert. People give me crap that i pay too much for them but hey are sittin decked out hed tu toe in abercrombie and bitch and that pisses me off. Abercrombie is the gayest clothing in the world. same with tommy and whatever else. I go to school with a bunch of funkin tools who think their better than you because they have the"cooloer" clothes. but i just ignore cuz their crap. And besides remeber its not what would jesus do its WHAT WOPULD SATAN DO

Chiliwhip -

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jncos rule

brandon -

Hello

brandon james farr -

yor so funny

brandon - <honkey> - NewYork

does anyone know where i can get some info on, "The History of Clothing: Fads, Fashion, and Classics" ?
Thanx

Atcho - ga

I would like to know 'universal design'
Could you recommend all kind of site map and infomation
thank you. have a nice day!

nuly - <bosself < a t > hanmail.net> - seoul,KOREA

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micheal richter - charlotteheath field ct

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micheal richter - charlotteheath field ct

Pyromania!!! really it is1

Justino Morales - <Blooberboy < a t > yahoo.com> -

green design and universal design may be fads but long after the fad has occurred designing with the environment and all people in mind becomes another function to take care of. thus we learn from the fads.

Lisa Fletcher - <efletch < a t > tpgi.com.au> - fremantle,australia

I think that most things are fads. We eventually grow out of them, lose interest in them, or they just simply disappear. My suggestion is: Don't focus on what is a fad or what isn't. If you like it do it, if not don't.

Margie - <Bgtease68 < a t > aol.com> - Pembroke Pines, Florida

i say with authority that the next fad will be wearing large corporation tee-shirts etc. now it is adiddas and nike. soon it will be microsoft, intel, aol, and netscape.

mike - <comics < a t > webtv.net> - south bend, indiana

All I need is clothing fads from 1984, Please.

Sandy Gardner -

I'm working on by kids babybooks and I don't know the answer to the question: "
What were the fads, phrases and crazes of 1997?"

Wendy - <kwbeeman < a t > msn.com> - What were the fads, phrases and crazes of 1997? Please help me?

WWJD, Some of these comments are wrong and should be banished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't forget WWJD What Would Jesus Do!

Max - <can't tell> - U.S.A

Can''t you Jinco freaks get it through your thick heads.Jinco's stink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wouldn't you like to know - <Ha ha ha your cracki'n me up> - thats even funier

Suck my big wet nards!

I was friggin looking for radioactive symbols not fucking recycling shit!

l8tr!

Suck my little weiner - <pumpme < a t > uparse.com> - Buttville Alabama

Are you guys talking about design or what? How can I do a search on industrial revolution antiques and end up here?!?!? :-)

Flyer Com - <flyer < a t > anywhere.com> -

Can I ask what do you think makes a fad, or the comeback of old ones?

Dawn - <dawni25 < a t > hotmail.com> -

Can I ask what do you think makes a fad, or the comeback of old ones?

Dawn - <dawni25 < a t > hotmail.com> - Po Box 743 Unalaska Ak 99685

I think that this whole webpage sucks #$%&.Thats
just about all I got to say. YOU SUCK DICK
%$* < a t >

You Stupid Mother < a t > $%&&* - <dont got one> - Marshfield, GreenBay

Ya know,its really strange,I say to myself, who would want to pay $60+ for somingthing that has a guys name on it(Calvin Cline, Tommy Hilfiger ect.) But the strange part is is that I luv them! They are WAY buff! I luv to shop, so I luv clothes!I have set a couple fads before, so there nothin' bad.

katie - <circus < a t > whidbey.net> - Oak Harbor,Wa

I already signed in once but I think my comment
could be misinterprited. I wrote WWJD! What I meant
was WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?)

Raychel Suggs - <Raychels < a t > hotmail.com> - www.hotmail.com

I already signed in once but I think my comment
could be misinterprited. I wrote WWJD! What I meant
was WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?)

Raychel Suggs - <Raychels < a t > hotmail.com> - www.hotmail.com

wwjd

raychel suggs - <raychels < a t > hotmail.com> - hotmail.com

FOR THE NEW YEAR, STRICTLY WU-WEAR!

VONI THORSTEN - FOLEY, MN

FOR THE NEW YEAR, STRICTLY WU-WEAR!

VONI THORSTEN - FOLEY,MN

all u'all are wrong. the next design fad is flowers.
the hawaiian type or vacation shirt type designs

p- house -

YES! I'm a poser, and i was wondering where to go
to learn how to be cool? I wear Jncos and stuff.

Acidburn - Florida

I love Jncos and Breakdowns! I wear Airwalks and yes I am a sk8er! I think tight pants and short shirts are ugly! Big pants and big sgirts are in where I live!

Tyne - <airwalks14 < a t > hotmail.com> - Las Vegas, Nevada

ADDIAS sucks AND jncos WHOOP!!!!!!

SCOTT WULFEKUHL - <52057> - MANCHESTER

I know I already have two messages on here but I changed my email address and I wanted you all
out there to know my new address.

Kayla grace - <kayla.grace < a t > usa.net> - Kentucky

I don't really care about fads but.....I do care about Adidas! Adidas ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kayla Grace - <gracek < a t > usa.net> - Kentucky

fads are sometimes good and sometimes bad sometimes they are cool and sometimes they are bummers

Kayla Grace - <gracek < a t > usa.net> - Kentucky

They'll go with a radioactive symbol

Amshed Sumadi - Somewhere in the Middle East

The next big design fad will be...
...green dragons

Lynn -

To Jamie Billings- you gave just the kind of
response I would expect from a european. Even your
triple posting of the same message is wasteful. How
symbolic...

fenris - <u62699 < a t > uicvm.uic.edu> - chicago

I don't know i haven't seen anything yet

Desiree - <rphinney < a t > blackhills.com> - lead

I don't know i haven't seen anything yet

Desiree - <rphinney < a t > blackhills.com> - lead

JNcos rule

Chris - <atwood < a t > chickisaw.com> - Ada

Another year has passed and the question of fads regarding website design is now moot.
Interesting enough the human factors of interface design are becoming more pertinent as the commercial aspect of the internet invades the general public domain.
Access for the disabled is now of importance. Is that a fad?

Tony McCoy - <tony < a t > basics.net> - www.basics.net san jose, ca

I think your fad page is really sweet but I would like to recomend that you give a help page to help people get around your page !

Love
Elizabeth

Elizabeth Ann Alford - <dem < a t > cmindspring.com> - 1526 Bellauwood Dr.

Web Design and the internet in-general was forcast long ago. Foresight to the Net was cought with this Thomas Jefferson Quote: "That ideas should spread freely from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement of exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property." Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine were pen-pals discussing in length communication as a tool and how ideas were conceived and distributed. Think of VRML as a way for a designer to communicate an idea to a non-visual manager. You make your own examples. Deep Productions http://www.deepinteractive.com

Bart Brejcha - <bart < a t > deepinteractive.com> - Chicago

Green design and web page design are directely opposed to one another. The computer industry produces an incredible amount of biproducts. Computer maufacturers are so in love with their technology that they are producing hardware and software faster than the market can use it. Even the auto industry does a better job of producing a product that will last longer and be servicable for a longer period of time. Web design and the 'net is just this decades version of channel surfing in front of the TV. With millions of potential sites to visit how many are worth while? The web has not democratized the masses enough, in fact I predict the web will cause a further seperation of those who can afford it and those who can't.

Green design has suffered from the big marketing machine and now consumer's perception of what is green is all screwed up. True, we are not going to save the planet. Let's cut through the crap and admit we are saving ourselves by trying to keep the planet more inhabitable for us. Green design will only break from its current fad status when consumers are immediately affected by the results of toxic waste, deforestation, dissappearing landfills, etc. Designers who must rely on corporate clients for work will continue to design wastefully until corporations feel the power and voice of the consumer. We have become so complacent in what we purchase. The bulk of what industrial designers produce is not solving any green issues(with a few exceptions) we are mere cogs in a large capitalist system who's bottom line concern is profit.

The next fad? Stop and think. Inspite of our technological advances since the industrial revolution we actually have less leisure time than before. (Check out "The Overworked American" by Juliet B. Schor). Technology has made us more efficient-we work longer hours, created new health problems-tumors from excessive cell phone use, there are, I'm sure, many more. More and more married couples are downsizing there material possesions(again, Ms. Schor) choosing careers that enable them to have more leisure time. look at the growing popularity of extreme sports. Our work time has squeezed out our leisure time that we are trying to get more intense experiences from our leisure time.

Lo-tech design is the answer. I would venture to guess that many industrial designers came into this profession because they enjoyed creating things or solving problems-not because we need a newer and more aesthetically pleasing widgets. Come the end of the century: take your money out of the bank, because we haven't cured the millenium bug; unplug you PC and chuck it off the roof and start interfacing with those in your community and start creating changes locally. Design doesn't need to be limited to goods and services. Designers are essentially problem solvers. We get so caught up in high tech solutions for low tech ills. The real challenge is to look at what people really NEED. When you get down to it do we really need a web page?

Suck up before its too late!

Patrick Myers - <pmyrs < a t > falcon.cc.ukans.edu> - Lawrence, Kansas

does anybody have to be in the fad be yourself be creative and do what you feel confortable in

just me - Reno nevada

I think thet there are many fads thet people have it just depends on if you are a skater or a gangbanger or a stoner or just baggie pant and hip huggers for normal next it is going to be all clueless skirts for girls and baggie pant for guy

michelle Breann Parsons - <dont have one > - Reno,nevada & Corvallis oregon

Does anyone know about the designer/maker of that
candy"push-pop"???-how was it launched and what was
the ideas behind its creation??..remember the
huge fad for this product,a couple years ago?
Please help me,I need to write a report on it as
a part of my university assessment

linda hadiwijaya - <Chang < a t > email.com.au> - Sydney,australia

The fad at around my town are Jncos

Mighty Mouse -

Yes the are fads

Brad Larion - Home

It has been many months since I first made my comments below. A half year (is that all?) ago I made my comments about Web design and fads. I am amazed that this archived topic gathered more comments after is was "put away." The topic is even more pertinent today. However, since then I have continued to deal with bigger and bigger customers who want to get on the "Web." And for me to design something better than the competition due by yesterday! Web presence is vogue now. I wish it was indeed a fad. I am losing my creative soul in effort to make harried deadlines. The sad thing is, my thoughtful designs always get declined, but the stuff I put out on computer in five minutes with my eyes closed (, and a single pass with Kai's Power Tools) gets frothed over! D. Seigel 's assessment of the "Balkanization of the Web" is dead on. Creativity is out the windows folks. (HEY! Sounds darn close like the VERY definition of the word "fad.")

My dear expatriate friends of Art, let's keep IT alive.

Tony McCoy - <tonym < a t > one2velocity.com> - San Jose, CA 95125

life is too short...

design/create what makes you happy.

ben -

Right! First of all I would like to remind every designer that he/she has chosen to be a designer for a reason and whether he/she admits it to themselves or not -the reason is power. I am not suggesting that you do not enjoy what you do! In responce to something that Colin Leonard wrote and I quote"Green design is really a necesity rather than a fad". I don't think so Colin. The planet can look after itself. Sometimes we forget how little power we really have!

jamie billing - England

Fifty years ago People thought the TV was a fad!

me - USA

It is the turn of a century. We have returned to everything for one last look! Who ever thought we'd be designing our homes in traditional country, victorian- pop fifties-or sixties ever again? Now we are on Ethnic.
So we have relived every style-or at least attenpted to the last 20 years...So where do we go from here?
Well I think the next fad is going to be a return to KINETIC. Yes things that move.
We are a global society now that has been exposed slowly to moving images...via web...via video...via laser...I think it will continue in this path across the board-in graphics-in indutrial-who knows kinetic fashions-kinetic furnishings!

As for webdesign-I think it is here to stay. It is another outlet of communication like billboards...like brochures. It is a way to communicate globally-easily and efficiently. It will never end-it will however progress - lead into the next thing-
hopefully it will be easier to create really wonderful designs instead of the busy-overdone-limited -chock full of information sites that we are producing now! Oh to be able to use a decent typeface-or a bigger size! Or to be able to see it the same on all browsers!

judith gorgone - <judith < a t > shore.net> - Boston. MA

I'm always amazed at the narrow view
designers take of their own field. To
categorize and compartmentalize design
is to operate with blinders on. Yes, there
are areas of specialization, just as in any
profession, but how many other professions
can claim a rich history and a discipline that
constantly reinvents itself as time, culture and
technology proceed steadily forward? This history
can be drawn upon by ALL types of designers.

To say that "Web design" is a "fad" or that
"retro was/is/will be the fashion is like saying
"my toes hurt today". Design transcends fads.
Design is about representing culture, all culture;
mirroring peoples' lives, a snapshot of life at
an instant. Good design will produce artifacts,
be they wood, or stone, or electrons, that will
be maintained and drawn from for generations to
come.

Today's designers so often become centralized on
what pleases them at the moment. Truly there is a
certain hubris that accompanies ones creations. But
the big picture of design is often overlooked. It isn't
whether you are a print designer or a furniture designer
or an architect or a Web designer or a software designer--
the key question is, "are you a GOOD designer?" Are you versatile in any medium and if not, are you willing to adapt? If not maybe rather than turning up the nose and playing off a particular medium, solution or style as a mere fad, you
should investigate the medium, find out what constitutes
"GOOD" design in that medium and share your understanding
with the rest of the design profession.

"The truth is out there" if you're willing to look for it. The Web may not be around in five years or it may be the
"movable type" of the next milinnium. Regardless, it is
simply a vehicle for transmission of ideas, nothing more,
nothing less.

Rob Sandusky - <robsand < a t > sfsu.edu> - http://www.retronet.com

Chatting is fun

Stu - <stucon < a t > core77.com> - New York

With regards to the comment by james on
graphic design and seeing tons of "gaussian blurs"
and "bastardized type": while I agree that lots
of people have been doing this, you have remember
that right now that style of design is very much
"in". Besides, the KISS concept seems to pass in and
out of phases of passe-ness. The essential point of any
and all graphic-design is (or at least should be) to COMMUNICATE. Just because
someone "bastardizes" a typeface does not mean his or
her work fails to do so. Just watch MTV or a Nike ad
sometime, you'll know exactly what I mean.

By the same token, unintelligent and haphazard use of
such elements shouldn't be tolerated as well, so from this
perspective I can see James' point.

But to classify ALL of such design elements (blurs,
photoshop filters, alternative type, etc) as being bad
is little ignorant. Just as the essential component in
industrial design is/should be function, communication is/should be
the essential component in good graphic-design, photoshop
filters/bastardized type or not.

A. Tan - <otaku < a t > i-d.com> -

If we concede that the impact of design on the environment is insignificant and temporary, that design has no relevance to anyone but young males fit in mind and body, and that the web will not endure as a vehicle for expression and communication, then yes, these are truly fads. How about retro green universal design? By the way, the symbol for universal access shown in this column faces backwards - is this significant?

jim mueller - <jlminc < a t > nicom.com> - chantilly, Virginia

Ah geez, I stop by to simply check out what's being said and immediately ge dragged into a discusision. Web design is no fad, although some web designs will undoudtedly become fads themselves. I can't see the need to jump into web design as if "the industrial epoch was over" as was stated in one comment. What some people don't understand is that the trends that come upon culture do not necessarily replace some other trend. What is happening more and more is that memes are added to the cultural landscape as new facets. The fragmentation of culture is really just the ability of commerce to provide more exactly what an individual consumer wants. I guarantee you that products will not dissapear from the cultural landscape. On the contrary, more and more products will fill the needs of more and more people. With a growing worl-wide population that is increasingly hungry for increased standards of living, the financial pressure to produce goods does not diminish. The pressure, is rather, to produce goods whose life cycles take into account the need to responsibly use resources. Green design is really a necesity rather than a fad. People will want the products they feel entitled to have and they will be best served by designers who can integrate the needs of a few with the needs of the planet. While "cyberspace" may subplant a number of "physical" products, I predict that few will be willing to have all of their experiences electronically. As a matter of fact, the increased awareness of the average individual will create greater demands for experiences and products of all kinds. The industrial revolution won't get replaced by the information age any more than rock'n'roll will replace classical or country or jazz. The next big fad will be trying to keep up with it all.

Colin Leonard - <cleonard < a t > q-net.net> - Sarasota,FL

Interesting comment By Chris Grow about RETRO being the next design Fad.
I do Industrial design for products in the music industry and Retro is already the fad.
There is something to be said for an old fationed illuminated analog meter blazing on the front of a product.

Damon Langlois - <dlanglois < a t > pinc.com> - Victoria B.C. Canada

Anybody want to talk design???

Form -

To dismiss web design as a fad is occupational suicide
today. We can all sit back and whine amongst ourselves that
the "art" is overlooked by the (so-called)heavy-handed
turks creating GUI's today. But the fact of the matter
remains that the "industry" is making an intensive push towards
the new technology/medium as the vehicle of choice to deliver "goods'
to the market. So it is that the designer's job is to ebb with
commercial demands and flow with it. That, essentially, demarcates a good
designer from a bad designer... it is the ability to be creative and
lucid whenever a problem presents itself.
There is a greater "design" at hand than a mere interface question. It is a design
of the very nature in which we humans will operate as a vessel of our knowledge.
Designers now have the task before them to create modes of interaction with the new "tools"
in order to facilitate the evolution. Sound silly? Imagine our ancestors delight when
they tied a rock to a stick and found use for it. This would be a different planet
otherwise.
The Industrial epoch is winding down my design friends! ID will soon mean "interface
design." And that is no joke. We must now design where it is during the transformation we
belong. Good designers will evolve with this transformation of the market in order to survive.
Great designers will conquer the transformation and make it pertinent in Time..

Tony McCoy - <tonym < a t > olstaffing.com> - San Jose, CA

My feeling is that the graphic deign industry has become to dependent on filters and "toys" included with every new upgrade of graphics softwares.
Having been in the industry before "the computer dependencies" I feel that important and basic design commincations
are relying to heavily on the software manufacturers and to little on there own skills and imagination. Grant it... put away your french curves and rapidiographs... my point being the KISS concept. Keep it simple stupid.
I tired of looking at porfolios filled with gaussian blures and bastardized type treatments.

james rhoades - <jrhoades < a t > wickham.com> - washington, dc

We Dont need Design!?!?

I couldn't disagree more with the biting commentary on www design being an "I can't get a job in Industrial Design" thing. It even gets worse with laura's (lbasca < a t > aol.com)comment...
"I would have to say that Web Site Design is the biggest fad. While the others actually have substance, Web Design has really no solid basis as a profession or as a design concern"

No solid basis as a profession or as a design concern?

What an odd thing to say.
We live in a world shaped by the products we use, the spaces we experience, and the feelings and emotions we draw from them. I'm not too sure about where you live, but I'm pretty sure you probably use at least one or two products a day, probably more. 2 to 3 million people are now using the internet (IDC 1996) on a regular basis. No basis as a proffession? How many products used that much, don't need special attention payed to design issues? Little things, like compatibility with audio web browsers (no pictures, just text read aloud to the user who is visually impaired). Just try using an audio browser with a web page loaded up with pictures that have no alt text(the alt tag is used in a web page to be displayed if a picture can't be shown) or a ton of links like "click here"...(audio browser person pleads...click where? where will it take me?...It would probably be pretty comparable to the same person trying to use an elevator with no raised lettering or braile.

Industrial Designers have been designing products throughout history, whether they carried the title of craftsman, blacksmith, hunter, housewife, Industrial Designer, or Software designer. The criticle thread is sensitivity to medium, use patterns, appropriateness, materials, manufacturing, art, and technology. To say that industrial designers shouldn't be doing world wide web design (or software design, or other interactive media) is wrong. Designers are trained to be more perceptive, and to generate ideas on how we might be able to use something better, to enjoy some thing more...And to apply these ideas into a usable product. The story of ID has always been about the human interface with products, and I'm sure anybody using a computer (or any other product) knows that even if the box is pretty, if the software (or other pieces of the whole product) isn't well designed it doesn't matter. Most software today is quite characteristicly undesigned (hard to use, ugly, boring, sterile, and un-imaginative), and the world wide web is even worse off. All Industrial Designers must admit that the World Wide Web and Software Design (both Interface and Application Model) need a great deal of good thoughtful design exploration and evolution.

I've got a great new material for you to learn about. It has almost no environmental impact at all, it's really cheap to manufacture with, it can be made into anything you want (even 4 dimensional!), and it can learn from the end user and modify it's own behavior accordingly. The new material is software.

R. David L. Campbell - <panic < a t > thekangaroo.com> - Kangaroo

One word for the upcomming fad in design

RETRO

Enuf said!

Chris

Chris Grow - <cgrow < a t > ix.netcom.com> - richmond va

I THINK THAT CURVES WILL BE THE NEXT FAD,

jorge -

I'm not a graphics design artist, more of a
hacker/business type. I've been working in a
community college computer lab for the past
2 years, and have seen a _drastic_ increase
in net traffic. IMHO, the massive increase of
businesses moving onto the net will continue,
and with it will be the constant demand for
brilliant images. IMHO within the next few
years professional graphics design on the Web
will explode.

Eric Badger - <ebadger < a t > sconnect.net> - Salt Lake City, Utah

SERIOUS AREA OF STUDY

A good contemporary design has always been
a moving target for designers. The rate of that
movement seems to have exponentially increased
in recent years, compared to decades or
centuries previous. I think the web has a
great deal to do with why and how that is
happening (along with the down-fall of religion).
When ANY new "style" or "flavor" of design
is re-emerging consistently it must get the
attention it deserves. This would probably not
be on the level of an "art movement"(impressionism)
but, it is to be recognized just the same.

Any new solutions or stylizations to the field of
design should be analyzed, critiqued and documented
for all to benefit.

NEXT FAD

This is a scary thought. We seem to getting new
toys or tools to design with before we REALLY get
a change to master the old ones. An artist or
designer's job is now very different then previous
generations. If any artist or designer truley masters
his craft and is producing successful commercial
projects then, by definition, he/she is PROBABLY
lacking the TIME it takes to master the NEW set of
tools that are ALREADY in place. (whatever they are)
Don't get me wrong, the new computer tools designers
have are really nothing short of amazing, and I
wouldn't trade them for anything. But, you can teach
tech to anyone, you can't teach a creative eye to anyone.
I'm NOT scared for today or even tomarrow, I think
personally I can keep up with whatever THEY throw at us.
I'm scared that in the future the commercial artist as
it exists today MAY be in danger. Soon technology will
start to be developed at a rate where even the ABOVE
average intelligent artist will have a problem keeping
pace. THEN WHAT? Will they slow-down the acceptance of
new graphical technology or will they accelerate the
acceptance of bad design?

Thomas Santoriello - <dali < a t > turnaround.com> - Westfield NJ

Simply. These are new elements of today's design.

Ricardo Sosa - <rsm < a t > hp9000a1.uam.mx> -

1. The best way to make a design "green" is to make
it so good that it is constantly "recycled" from
generation to generation--like good antique
furniture.
2. My school is very dedicated to teaching the
importance of universal design. James Pirkl reminded
us that even we will grow old.
3. I chuckle every time I hear an industrial designer
say he is now working as a web designer. It seems
to be code for "I can't get an industrial design job!"

Benjamin Mizrahi - <gizmonic < a t > cc.gatech.edu> - Georgia Tech, Atlanta

Well, what can i say? These fads are of the most
infinitesimally unimportant design issues when
compared to the latest design fad....

SCOOTER DESIGN!

Shane Dobson - <shanedobson < a t > s054.aone.net.au> - Australia

Good design intrinsically tends to be greener and
more universal; to separate out ecological or
social factors into special categories of design
seems to be a backward move.

Now Web page design, that's something else! Most
of what I've seen is so bad that I now have my
image autoload OFF and only rarely load images in
cases where I think there's a chance that it
might contain something meaningful. Some real
design thinking applied to this medium could go
a long way to cutting some of the cyber-sludge
one has to wade through on the net.

Mike Dixon - <ddd < a t > iinet.net.au> - Fremantle, Western Australia

yeah, you guys gonna be outta work REAL soon!

jose - <jhernandez < a t > cali.com> -

Of any of these I would have to say that Web Site Design is
the biggest fad. While the others actually have substance, Web Design has
really no solid basis as a profession or as a design concern.

laura - <lbasca < a t > aol.com> -