Jun 27th, 2009
By design
Sipping a cocktail at Noobia Cafe on the Miradouro de Santa Catarina in Lisbon this evening with two women I met at my hostel, I had the chance to revisit an idea I first heard discussed by my current boss, and that is the idea that it would be of great benefit to engage designers and journalists in a dialogue.
By designers I mean architects and people who do design the products we use in our everyday lives. And by journalists I mean people who report and craft stories (on television, print or Internet).
Both of these professional groups are involved in communicating ideas to the public in a functional way. Both professional groups display their work for the public to enjoy, in public spaces or places of business.
And increasingly, these groups must do the work of cutting through ubiquitous corporate communications messages… which is to say, advertising and PR messages delivered on the part of big institutions private and public.
Maybe this is too academic, but I think these groups could have some good input for each other.
Somewhat along these lines, I saw that CNN International will be showing soon a longish interview with Dutch architect Rem Koolhas. I do not profess to know a lot about architecture, but I am learning more all the time and I know that so far I really like his style. So I am curious to see what he is talking about.