As Opposed To How We Perceive Designers Now?

James Dyson’s resignation from the leadership of London’s Design Museum may have seemed like little more than an internal debate over direction writ large, but to hear Dyson tell it, nothing less than the future of the design industry is at stake. “If design museums shy away from explaining the guts of design, he worries, the next generation will perceive the designer as ‘little more than the creator of ineffectual ornaments.’ And what’s left of Western industrial manufacturing will spiral into decline.”