Challenges for a critique of design

All of a sudden one or two books sporting the magic word “design” on the cover have appeared, but without any illustrations in them (most rare). We are dealing with an anthology–La Critique en design : contribution à une anthologie–compiled and prefaced by Françoise Jollant-Kneebone and a pack hailing from the Starck exhibition at the Pompidou Centre: a transcription–minus the “er”s–of the major designer’s verbal diarrhoea–Starck Explications–flanked by a collection of “thematic essays”–Écrit

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