"How to demythologize a profession striving mightily to establish its own myths? How about all the gobbledygook about Apple you’ve been ingesting since October? Stop paying attention to propaganda about the greatness of design. Remember that museums and professional organizations are really businesses that act in their own vested interest. Design is only a behavior pattern leading to an activity, not the master metaphor of existence. Make sure you are armed with a full complement of other valuable tools, including literacy, conviviality, 20/20 hindsight, and acute self-awareness before you try to terraform the earth. Otherwise, the world of the future will look as wrong in 400 years as the New York of today looks compared to Hudson’s time. And that, in any sane definition of the word, will not be good."
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David Stairs
‘Demythologizing Design’
