Dear PHD-DESIGN list members:
An IDSA list to which I subscribe just announced that the USA's National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has published a report called "Valuing the Art
of Industrial Design: A Profile of the Sector and Its Importance to
Manufacturing, Technology, and Innovation." The link to the press release
is here: http://www.nea.gov/news/news13/Industrial-Design-Report.html
For those of you who live in countries in which there is a national design
council, perhaps this will not seem newsworthy. But if you live in the US,
you will likely know that the NEA has been, for most of its life, primarily
an organization dedicated to advancing the fine arts. But perhaps that's
starting to change.
I am downloading the report itself right now (it's at
http://www.nea.gov/research/Valuing-Industrial-Design.pdf), but I haven't
read it yet. Have any of you seen it? Any thoughts on it? I'd be interested
in hearing what people on this list think it may portend for American
design and design education.
Carma Gorman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Design Division
Department of Art and Art History
University of Texas at Austin
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