Design in the 21st Century: A Coffee with Barry Katz (Part 2)

SM: While you were going through your career transformation, design was also transforming. I am not going to ask you to go through 20th-century design in two seconds, but what was going on with design at that time? BK: Good, because that would take at least four seconds! Design has been meandering for about 120 years.

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