NOTHING IS STRANGE!

We are brought into this world as a complete miracle of the unknown. Everybody is happy with a newborn and astonished by the fact that living species are capable of producing another living creature. This fascination often lasts until the moment the first crying/sleepness nights occur and duty will call again. The reality of structure and regularity has returned and simultaneously the start of the thorough wiping out of any trace of the undefinable in the new baby's awareness.

Paradoxically speaking, thanks to our disrespect for nature, high oil prices or unnecessary wars we start realizing that, maybe, the structures we have created during the last 2000 years - religion, education, politics, economics - are showing too many traces of wear and tear.

Communication technology lifted the curtains covering established institutions and showed us how to create our own economy (ebay, craigslist or swapace) to bring our own news, opinions and observations in blogs and fora or to share ideas, contacts, knowledge or pleasure (linkedin, wikipedia, twitter, myspace).

New insights bring us freedom and creativity to finish with old dogma and will open doors to unorthodox approaches to every aspect in our lives. 

To remove the word "strange" from our vocabulary might be the first step to a world with incredible new ideas and business opportunities, kinder ways of living together and more commitment of every world citizen to global, participatory politics.

END OF THE DESIGNERS ERA?

Philip Starck has recently informed us that everything he had designed in the past was totally unnecessary. Personally, I couldn't agree with him more. Design for the sake of design doesn't squeeze oranges in the glass but on the table, washes your clothes instead of your hands and produces light switches that are "cool" not to be found.
Thanks to modern technology, fortunately we have entered a new era where designers, producers, retailers and consumers work together, in order to create sensible, sustainable and desired products.

FOREVER YOUNG

In the past it was only the priviledge for men to become gracefully old. Fortunately we see more often women claiming that right, especially the ones entering the fifth decenium of their lives. Thanks to advertisement campaigns of companies like Dove these women are taken serious. With the eye of an artist Dove shows beauty behind a few pounds too many, healthy grey hair or wrinkles around sparkling eyes. Modern women have worked way too hard the last thirty years to feel old and ugly: they are happy, proud and above all sexy.