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Fim da Experimenta Design?
..."Porquê a Experimenta? Em primeiro lugar, porque constroi pela cidade espaços de exposição onde mostra coisas do maior interesse. Algumas portuguesas, outras estrangeiras. Em segundo lugar, porque promove debates com designers portugueses consagrados ou jovens. Por vezes, esses debates são com grandes nomes do pensamento e do design contemporâneo. O que tem duas consequências importantes. Por um lado, contribui para uma internacionalização do que pensam os designers portugueses. Por outro lado, serve para dar uma imagem positiva de Portugal no Mundo"...
in: eduardo prado coelho - jornal público de 29.1.2007

What is the matter?
..."Engagement or political graphic design was the subject of a debate, chaired by Bruinsma, which at these affairs is meant to be carried on informally over lunch, at chance meetings or wherever. The possibly intriguing format, with panel and nominated ‘provocateurs’ did not work because the brief of questions to be addressed was not clearly formulated. Of course, democracy obliges something softer, but still Garth Walker, a militant designer under apartheid, told us how Africans from the townships came into downtown Johannesburg to claim their share of the(ir) city by setting up stalls to sell shiny carefully polished oranges, a sight which summed up for him the long worked-for revolution."...

..."The logo for ‘Catalysts’ is an adapted copyright symbol. Author’s rights are not meant to interest designers, but in fact the harmonisation of design rights in the EU has given new currency to ideas that have been around since the beginnings of graphic design, but in Portugal at least are barely known. "...

..."As it happened, another exhibition at Experimenta, of recent Portuguese work, carelessly curated by Henrique Cayatte, contained at least two examples of plagiarism and ‘passing off’, and much, though not all of the work, was in no way experimental, but offered only mediocre ‘default options’"...
in: eye magazine (link)