{"id":1209,"date":"2007-03-08T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2007-03-14T16:34:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T20:34:52","slug":"design-from-darlings-to-despots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"Design: From Darlings to Despots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"310\" height=\"255\" hspace=\"40\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IGnM5gFzdfc\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IGnM5gFzdfc\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"310\" height=\"255\" hspace=\"40\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping tabs on a couple of conversations. One, as indicated by the above video, is a <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.core77.com\/viewtopic.php?t=12265&#038;postdays=0&#038;postorder=asc&#038;start=0\">discussion on the Core77 design forum (Link)<\/a> centered around the association of a &#8220;design superstar&#8221;, Karim Rashid, with what is, in my opinion, an arguably defective product. The other is the disgust being vented on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2007\/02\/is_the_swiffer.php\">Treehugger (Link)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/2007\/03\/06\/greenwashing-101-the-swiffer-green-or-greenwash\/\">Inhabitat (Link)<\/a> over a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/innovate\/content\/feb2007\/id20070221_603937.htm?chan=innovation_innovation+%2B+design_insight\">BusinessWeek &#8220;advertorial&#8221;<\/a> by (Design) Continuum&#8217;s CEO, Gianfranco Zaccai, that uses P&#038;G&#8217;s Swiffer as an example of a &#8220;green&#8221; product. From &#8220;innovation and design&#8221; hype to &#8220;we do Green, too&#8221; showboating. Here we go again.<\/p>\n<p>All I have to say is that someone should get the Industrial Design profession some gauze, bandages and a pair of crutches for all the feet getting shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping tabs on a couple of conversations. One, as indicated by the above video, is a discussion on the Core77 design forum (Link) centered around the association of a &#8220;design superstar&#8221;, Karim Rashid, with what is, in my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1209\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}