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Design is becoming increasing universal. No longer the exclusive province of a dominant country or cultural influence, design is global in its reach and in its appeal.
In a few month period design based shows From Paris to Hong Kong, Manila to Milan, High Point to Shanghai and from NY to Las Vegas welcomed many of the same visitors. and shared several of the same exhibitors. That fluidity of attendance moving easily from one event to another around the globe has flattened the landscape in the search for the unique.
In the six or so of these events that I have or will attend in a few month period I was surprised to see how many of the same people and products I saw from one show to another with little or no consideration for the country or distance traveled.
Globalization with its unrestricted access to markets excites the creative passion and increases the talents requirement to develop original work from a fresh point of view.
It is expands the opportunity to capture markets independently but challenges the vision and uniqueness of the work, measured against a much broader field of the worlds competitors.
In the forty years or so that I have worked as designer, inventor, manufacturer and marketer of contemporary design I have seen several waves of influences and evolutions. There was often a national character to the design presentations which were often seen as valid only within a specific regional context. Today that canvas has expanded to include a broader pallet of influences based less on locale and more on individual talent.
I loved the ICFF in NY and thought it was fresh and exciting. Milan was fun and experimental with fanciful notions unfettered by concern for utility. I cant wait to see Lightfair tomorrow in Phili. and back in two weeks to Guangzhou for more LED developments.
Its a great time to be working in design and I am more excited then ever about the challenges of developing product designs in a marriage of art and technology. The future will look less and less about the past and more and more about individual creativity expressed to a more unified world of design.