Amsterdam heeft grafisch ontwerper Karel Martens (85) gevraagd een patroon te ontwerpen om 30 km/u wegen visueel smaller te maken om zo de snelheid te verlagen.
Whether reactionary spasm or irrevocable paradigm shift, if history is a guide, once the game is afoot, scores of designers will be eager to get with the program. Obviously, doing ugly work isn’t difficult. The trick is to surround it with enough attitude so it will be properly perceived not as the product of everyday incompetence, but rather as evidence of one’s attunement with the zeitgeist.