Stories by Justin McGuirk
“Marcus Fairs was undoubtedly one of the design world’s pre-eminent power brokers”
“Mad Max cornered the market in a particular vision of the post-apocalyptic future”
“Protest has been marginalised”
“The perfect architectural symbol for an era obsessed with customisation and participation”
“Design is complicit in economic and political systems that are inherently violent”
“Design critics make an exception for certain technology products”
“Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk”
“No one will ever write a book called Zen and the Art of iPhone Maintenance”
“We are not in the midst of a revolution, we are between revolutions”
“To stick it to The Man, first you have to let him trouser your money”