Design Trends

I’m a little late in posting this due to travelling – about a week late and with little chance of winning but what the heck! The blog has been nominated for the Mydeco Design Democracy awards; and as part of the competition they asked nominees write about what design Democracy means to them. Well I guess I covered a little of this in my Democracy post a couple of months back but in the spirit of the competition here’s a little more on the subject. 

I guess to me Design Democracy means the way in which we can all participate in the process of design – and it’s something the internet has empowered us to do. We vote for design via companies like Threadless or through Behance .We read and comment direct to designers via online magazines like Dezeen (and you can bet that even the hard shell that encases the ego of many an architect/designer has been a little dented by some of the caustic comments on there – but hey that’s Democracy). We go direct to designers and vote with our cash via ecommerce - it’s so easy to set up shop and get noticed whether through a portal such as Mydeco or for the home based makers on Etsy. And such is our interest in design; the design shows now welcome the non trade visitors with open arms- after all they are customers too.

And finally as individuals we participate in design through writing our own thoughts and ideas through our blogs.  If anything the Mydeco competition has put a little spark in the small but growing UK Design blog community and shown the breadth of thought and ideas on the subject. If you could vote for my blog that would be lovely but feel free to vote for one or two of the others as well – the great thing about this Democracy is you get more than one vote!

Enjoy the blogs and Vote!  – It’s not like you have to physically drag yourself out to a polling booth or anything.

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