The Crit #17: Clement Weather
Happy Lunar New Year! The Crit is back for 2022 – and the Year of the Tiger – with an unusually full first month of design news. Of course, your co-hosts (or should we say crow-hosts) treat it all to their traditional analysis and debate.
In episode #17, they scrutinise the unstoppable rise of NFTs, their questionable artistic credentials and real-world ramifications; puzzle over the calendar chaos wrought by covid as Salone del Mobile reschedules; get caught up in the craze for Wordle (now owned by The New York Times – ed.); marvel over how gene editing technology helped the world's first pig-to-human heart transplant; and recoil in horror from brands pasting their logos over both natural and human-made wonders of the world.
There’s also excitement over the roll out of Framework, a new modular laptop designed for home repairs; the humble dustpan and brush gets a makeover from Studio Irvine for Muji; and young designer Mac Collins continues his unstoppable rise with a brand new prize.
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Show Notes: Ep.17 - ‘Clement Weather’
Are NFTs Art? – 2:05
Calendar Chaos – 24:02
The Wordle Craze – 33:37
Designing Pig Heart Transplants – 37:43
Ostentatious Branding Campaigns – 41:17
Framework – 48:38
Studio Irvine x Muji – 51:30
Mac Collins – 54:07
Credits
All music for The Crit has been created by Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki (Adam Cheong-MacLeod and Charlie Carroll) at Pentagram, and our logo was designed by Leonhard Rothmoser.