2009

Wallpaper's annual Graduate Directory is out. As usual, the directory is overwhelmingly populated with British and continental designers/artists. a few Asia's rising starts have been nominated of course. i don't know if it's a question of information access, but then design is a visual discipline, action, and product at its core and should transcend barriers. And of course, young alums from the Bartlett win a spot :)

Looking at the Architecture list, i am pleasantly surprised to see a wide range of orientations other than deconstructivist madness. Of course i'd love to see more divas a la Zaha Hadid running around, but something simple and refreshing is sometimes underrated.



Kudos to the webpage designer for making things so clean, classic, and simple yet very playful and easy to navigate. because last year's diagrammatic lay-out for this huge bundle of information was a design faux pas.