Design polyglot speaks up

“His theme is that we are in a period when design as a great, organising, industrial discipline is in parodic decline. Fatigued by excess and redundancy, consumers seek value in abstracts. Meanwhile, designers make big-ticket one-offs.”

Deyan Sudjic is well placed to contribute to the debate on the future of design, says Stephen Bayley

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