La classifica delle 21 cose/persone che inflenzano il design nel mondo

Interessantissimo articolo online che stila una classifica di 21 eventi/cose/compagnie/scuole che stanno influenzando o hanno già incominciato ad influenzare le tendenze della progettazione nel mondo. Ovviamente tutto è discutibile se vogliamo, ma ne vale veramente la pena rifletterci su…

In ordine:

1. Ikea (” If it wasn’t for Ikea, most people would have no access to affordable contemporary design”);
2. Prototipazione rapida (“Rapid prototyping is perhaps the most revolutionary fabrication technique since the invention of the potter’s wheel”);
3. Easyjet (“It costs a London-based designer less than £50 to fly to Milan; in the US, even the cost of inter-city flights is prohibitive”);
4. La settimana del design di Milano (“Milan Design Week – the official furniture fair – is still by some margin the world’s premier occasion for product launches and networking”);
5. La Design Academy di Eindhoven (patria del Droog – “After a few years in the doldrums, the Dutch design scene is back as a major force – and Design Academy Eindhoven is the crucible of it all”);
6. Alice Rawsthorne (“The row between the London’s Design Museum’s director Alice Rawsthorn and vacuum cleaner magnate James Dyson, who resigned as chair of the trustees in disgust at Rawsthorn’s policies”);
7. Copiare (“It’s getting easier and easier to rip off someone else’s ideas, and the implications for people who come up with them in the first place are profound”);
8. i fratelli Bouroullec (“Most designers simply iterate existing ideas; French duo Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec are among the few who consistently come up with new typologies”);
9. i Blog (“Computers and the internet are changing the way designers work in myriad ways, but we’ve settled on blogs as the phenomenon that is having the greatest impact right now”);
10. Midsummer Light (“2004 Midsummer light took the idea a step further, consisting of two flat-packed sheets of Tyvek (the high-strength paper used for DHL envelopes) stamped with delicate floral patterns that are literally draped over a bare light bulb”);
11. il LitTraCon (“LitTraCon could spell the end to the grass-roots distaste for exposed concrete”);
12. il Readymade (“The world of design is appropriating readymade objects as never before, and the evidence is clear from student work to products like Maarten Baas’s scorched furniture”);
13. la Corea del Sud (“South Korea has the most extensive government-sponsored policy on the promotion of design in the world, and by 2007 the country is aiming to be the world design leader in the digital era”);
14. Rei Kawakubo (“While some say Rei Kawakubo is no longer the cutting edge of fashion design, she with her fashion label Comme des Garcons is one of the most savvy cultural figures around…”);
15. Ora Ito (“…it’s the story of how he rose to prominence that makes him influential”);
16. Naoto Fukasawa (“Naoto Fukasawa is changing the way we think about Japanese electronic products – and changing the way Japanese corporations think about them, too”);
17. l’Entropia (“In design, entropy can be used as an umbrella term to describe the increasing number of practitioners exploring ways of introducing chaos, decay and error into their work”);
18. il Nintendo DS (“Nintendo’s new DS handheld console not only offers an entirely new way of playing videogames – it also represents a quantum leap forward in the way people interact with electronic devices”);
19. Tony Dunne e Fiona Raby (” London duo Tony Dunne and Fiona Raby, however, are pioneering a type of design that explores the social significance of objects”);
20. Murray Moss (“New York’s Moss store in Soho is probably the most important design shop in the world”);
21. Yves Behar (“Thirty-eight-year-old Yves Béhar is proving that you don’t need a Jonathan Ive-style aesthetic dictatorship to make beautiful objects for corporate giants”).

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