“Designs for life won’t make you a living”
– Guardian
Dezeenwire: design critic Justin McGuirk lifts the lid on the furniture industry’s royalty system and asks “are designers being exploited by having to make work for free?” in his article for The Guardian, describing #milanuncut as the big story of Milan 2011. Read the full article »
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