They create the envy and desire that fuels the economy and the cynicism that underlies our postmodern condition. But the most exciting thing about design today is not the digital pyrotechnics, the exploding, mutating forms - the wild anarchy of it all. It's the politics. Planet Inc. Whether designers acknowledge it or not, their profession is one of the key sites of struggle over the production and distribution of meaning.
Many designers refuse to believe it.
They were trained to distance themselves from the ethical and political values that underlie their work. They're well paid for their commercial sex, but passion eludes them.