Newsletter 122
Hola.
This summer is very similar to a regular one in the 80s. Nostalgia is something that brings a lot of money and we can see it by looking at the headliners of the big music festivals. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Depeche Mode, Blur, Pet Shop Boys, among others. All putting out new records and touring the world. And watching a new Indiana Jones movie at the theater.
The same thing happens on television and in all those markets where a past that is always believed to have been better is idealized. Also happens in the world of sneakers, with models from the 80s that are now worn by teenagers.
I admit that I feel like a victim of that design nostalgia. I think the work of designers in the last century has been much more memorable than in the last 20 years. I do not hide.
In music we tend to recognize that the first albums by these groups were better and not the last ones. And surely it is so. But what about the design? Will we not be too critical of what is currently being done? I think that everything is going so fast that brands and designs don't have time to establish themselves, to have a run.
Haste has killed good great design.
— W.
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