Since we’re on the topic of design technology, we may as well start talking about the holidays. In the last 5 years or so online videos have become de rigeur for company holiday cards. Like the switch from paper towels to air blowers in the washroom, it’s a move that undoubtedly makes a lot of sense from a sustainability standpoint, but still leaves residual droplets of concern, as we attempt to make small talk over the roar of technological innovation, as to whether we are actually living in a better world.
“Design firms must change or die,” such has been a constant industry refrain ever since the global economic meltdown of 2008. But it’s hard to know how firms should change, what aspects of practice are particularly susceptible to extinction, or w…
