I talked to Johan Huldt the other day. He's a Swedish furniture designer in his sixties, who has run his own furniture producing business, Innovator, since 1970. A few years ago he was the CEO of the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design, these days he's mostly involved in the House of Design in Hällefors. And he claimed: "The higher the fence, the better it gets.These are wonderful times for designers. Our work is about problem solving and the need for solutions has never been as big as it is today".
Do you agree?
Thursday, 2 April 2009
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That's easy for him to say, as he is not active anymore!
ReplyDeleteWell, that's not true, he recently made a swivelchair out of sailcloth made from PET-bottles.
ReplyDeleteProfessor Beddington, chief scientific advisor för the UK government, recently warned that the world is heading for major upheaval. Growing global population and success in alleviating poverty will trigger a surge in demand for food, water and energy. On top of that there's climate change. It will all lead to a "perfect storm" in 2030. So of course designers of today, as well as politicians and businessmen, have an important role to play. But if we really are to believe professor Beddington's grim picture of our near future, the tag "wonderful" doesn't seem to fit the present, not even looking thru the eyes of a designer.
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