Time to raise our game in 2008

3 January 2008

Last year's launch of the Apple iPhone was arguably one of the most successful product stories of the decade. And yet some say that the world of product design is at a crossroads or, worse still, doomed to disaster in the new eco-aware climate. So just what will happen in the business of product design in 2008?One of my lasting memories of 2007 is that of John Thackara, the director of Dott 07, announcing that the age of the object is dead, and as such, that the design industry ...

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