April 07, 2004
Design Research
I tried Googling "Design Research":
First I got:
This site is intended to act as a resource for those researching graphic and interactive design related issues...
then I got:
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well....
It's been an interesting morning
Posted by Neal Haslem at 10:33 AM
Art & Design?
"or any of the other image-scavengers and recyclers who infest the wretchedly stylish woods of an already decayed, pulped-out postmodernism."
in the Guardian today
This is Robert Hughes talking Lucien Freud - and slamming Saatchi and the BritPak. Hughes' always been a purist but I'm starting to think that he knows what's going on...
I respond to this article as a call to reality, quality, meaning...I suppose a bit of a manifesto in itself.
It's not that I necessarily prefer Freuds work to Tracy Emins, or find it more relevant, I've always found Koons stuff invigoratingly "anti", but perhaps there's something here about realities, and false realities, false gods even...
Posted by Neal Haslem at 09:18 AM