{"id":2478,"date":"2007-09-27T11:49:14","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T15:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/we-should-be-keeping-people-out-of-stores-but-we-all-have-to-work-with-business\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:56:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:56:27","slug":"we-should-be-keeping-people-out-of-stores-but-we-all-have-to-work-with-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/we-should-be-keeping-people-out-of-stores-but-we-all-have-to-work-with-business\/","title":{"rendered":"We should be keeping people out of stores but we all have to work with business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guylaine pointe vers cette édition du Iconeye<\/a> qui rassemble les manifestes de quelques personnalités influentes du monde du design : Peter Saville, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, John Maeda, Stefan Sagmeister.<\/p>\n

Le premier manifeste est de Peter Saville<\/a>, qui porte un regard pessimiste et critique sur les fondements du monde du design, et qui à mes yeux a su mettre des mots sur le flou et le sentiment grandissant de répugnance que j’ai face à l’industrie du Marketing, que ce soit dans l’imprimé ou dans le web.<\/p>\n

Morals
\nThe cultural adventure has been consumed by business.<\/b> Making things better is a moral issue, but morality and business don’t go together – business is, if not immoral, then amoral. We know we should be keeping people out of stores but we all have to work with business.<\/b> It can’t really be all about idealism and altruism.<\/p>\n

Where are the NGOs?
\nEveryone does their best but you have to pay the rent. Even hospitals have to run to profit. You can’t avoid the issue merely by working for an NGO – even Amnesty and Greenpeace have to be “business facing”. The only bastion of free speech could be the art world, but even that is a preciously engineered marketplace with its own complexities.<\/b><\/p>\n

Value finding
\nCreative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything – designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It’s important to know what your values are and to take care of them.<\/b><\/p>\n

Post-war socio-cultural democratisation
\nIt’s a long term, but broken down it’s simple. Over the last 50 years culture has been disseminated to the wider public rather than being the domain of the privileged. There is an inevitable loss of substance in the process of becoming a culture of entertainment.<\/b> If it’s not popular, it’s not happening.<\/p>\n

Design as drugs
\nPop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.<\/b><\/p>\n

The new cause
\nI was part of a system that wanted to change the look of the everyday world. That ideal, manifest through consumerism, doesn’t sit well with me now. I am not wealthy and completely understand how we all have to pay our way.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guylaine pointe vers cette édition du Iconeye qui rassemble les manifestes de quelques personnalités influentes du monde du design : Peter Saville, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, John Maeda, Stefan Sagmeister. Le premier manifeste est de Peter Saville, qui porte un regard pessimiste et critique sur les fondements du monde du design, et qui à mes… Continue reading We should be keeping people out of stores but we all have to work with business<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8439,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/8439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}