“The media is to blame for presenting design as a kind of visual game in which considerations for the everyday reality of an object are set aside in the interest of selling the magazine and getting everyone all hotted up about how glamorous it is….despite all the creative juice that goes into making these showstoppers, the results don’t make for good atmosphere. They make for something fake and trivial and uncomfortable…An atmosphere for people who choose to hide from life behind a veneer of style.”

-Jasper Morrison in Metropolis magazine

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