News: the #milanuncut debate that exposed the poor royalties designers earn has inspired the launch of Crowdyhouse, a new crowdfunding platform that helps designers find funding for their products. More
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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#milanuncut: in this short audio interview, recorded as part of the #milanuncut project, Clemens Weisshaar of Kram/Weisshaar talks about the royalty payments structure in the design industry which, Weisshaar argues, are based on an out-dated industrial model. More
London designers Zerofee have created a mobile web app for following the #milanuncut project. More
Milan 2011: Dezeen is supporting #milanuncut: an experimental, collaborative journalism project that aims to lift the lid on the design world to coincide with next week's Milan furniture fair. More
