"Designers are in an explosive mood."

“Product designers are showing their angst,” the headline says, backed up by “Protests against war and politics are showing up in graphic arts and design.”

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Murray Moss, a New York retailer who serves on the board of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, says there hasn’t been a period of such fertile creativity since pre-World War I Vienna. That’s when radical expressionist artists shattered established notions of beauty and designers revolutionized their field, too.

Interesting, if perhaps a wee bit hyped. Read on at the Miami Herald.

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Posted by Giles, Tuesday, January 24, 2006, at 1:45 AM.
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