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Everyone is a designer in the age of social media. Really?

PUBLISHED 20 Jul 2010 - 2:39pm

Mieke Gerritzen's cover for Emerge magazine: Everyone is a designer

It's ten years since Dutch designer Mieke Gerritzen and others produced the manifesto Everyone is a designer. This year the book is reprised with an updated edition, Everyone is a designer in the age of social media, which features new contributions from Matthew Fuller, Alexander Galloway, Peter Lunenfeld, Ellen Lupton, Lev Manovich, Koert van Mensvoort, Metahaven, Rick Poynor, Ned Rossiter, Bruce Sterling, McKenzie Wark and the most articulate of all social media evangelists, Clay Shirkey. The idea that everyone is a designer is intoxicating. Clay Shirkey's book Here Come Everybody famously... More

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