Design 2.0
New tools, new consumers, new designers?
One of the Eindhoven Academy’s graduates to catch the eye at last year’s Dutch Design Week (DDW), Tal Erez’s MA thesis ‘Socialism: Looking Forward, Design for a New Consumer’, examines the role of design and designers as a new active consumer converges with the potential of a home factory, in a 3D-printer shaped revolution that is driven by the social effects of the Internet.
The end of retail, an abandoned IKEA building, found on Flickr, 2020, © by McAzi
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