The View from VISI
Design for real life
Four separate incidents cause Alma Viviers to re-examine the nature of design and the roles of designers.
Faking it or making it?
This is a touchy one, but it’s time that we speak out about copying in the design industry. It happens here, it happens abroad. It happens in fashion, it happens in food. But does that make it okay?
To save or not to save?
The Save Coromandel campaign launched in VISI 55 has raised several questions about the importance and relevance of preserving our architectural heritage, writes Alma Viviers.
Shop with a conscience
A trip to Merci in Paris encouraged VISI's Carine Visagie to make an effort to support the stores and initiatives that donate generously to charity.
What? No new chairs?
Finish refinery Ore.e is challenging designers all over the world to NOT design chairs in 2012 – an initiative that coincides with Helsinki’s status as World Design Capital 2012.
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Media exposure 101
In a previous post, VISI editor Jacquie Myburgh Chemaly expressed her frustration at designers who only want their work published in print and not online. Now it’s online editor Carine Visagie’s turn to file a complaint.
Online isn't half bad
VISI editor Jacquie Myburgh Chemaly expresses her frustration at designers who only want their work published in print and not online. Could it be they fear that ultimate put down: of not being shared or retweeted?
The glory of gaudy
Having just returned from a trip to Spain VISI sub-editor mind is awash with the spirals and swirls and multi-coloured mosaics of Antoni Gaudi.
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