Design in a Depression
What effect will a severe economic downturn have on design practice? Opinions abound, but the one thing that seems certain is that the future of design is more uncertain than ever.
Way back in November of last year, we noted that economic signs all pointed to a foreseeable future in which designers were going to have to start thinking about ways to do more with less. We noted that "[s]chematically, a more challenging climate for business tends to mean a more challenging climate for design." We also wondered if this was necessarily the case.
If the economic downturn was looming then, it's nearly in full bloom now, and a lot of fine pieces have since been written about its effect on design to come. I thought it might be nice today to do a brief review of the literature which has helped my clarify my answer to our earlier pondering (in the affirmative).
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