Sell-Out

by Kylie Phillips

If design was a sale, what might it say?

At a time when the world is reacting to the repercussions of an economic crisis, businesses are doing everything in their power to survive. As a result, we are constantly bombarded and lured by cut price offers, sales and clearance reductions.

Sell-Out addresses the relationship between a recession and the design industry. By investigating the contexts of contemporary culture, a candid social commentary of design can be offered using conventions of the current retail market.

Are designers expected to offer the same slashed prices and cheap deals? By churning out mass-produced bargain basement material will we ultimately be selling-out? Could this move risk the highly-crafted and intelligent artisanship of considered design to nothing more than glorified production? Or will it instead encourage an alternative thinking citizen, a devoted originator of ideas?

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Contextual Publication
Screenprinted A1 Posters
Limited Edition of 25 Prints
$60 each or $200 full set (4)
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For purchase enquiries,
please contact Kylie Phillips
kylie@thoughtmatter.co.nz
021 544 878

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