ion of designers, are disposable
diapers, plastic foam coffee cups and
low resolution television sets, says
Metropolis magazine. The magazine
sent questionnaires to 150 designers
around the country and followed up
with in-depth interviews with 50 of
them on the highs and lows of design
in the 1980s.
According to Susan Szenasy,
Metropolis editor, reasons for the
thumbs-down include environmen-
tal hazards and new technology.
Thus, conventional ovens and
toasters will make way for electronic
chip technology. Fancy teapots are a
fad, and the TV as we know it will
give way to high resolution tech-
nology and a much sharper picture.
Expensive fax machines will get
cheaper, then toward the end of the
decade the fax will be pushed aside

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1990s will be the decade
of environmental
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by improved modems and computers
that will nudge us further toward a
paperless society.
Szenasy says the magazine
undertook the survey in order "to
find out what advances design has
made in the 1980s, if any, toward im-
proving the quality of life. What we
found out is that the '80s was a very
mixed decade."
It was good because it offered a
lot of choices. It was bad because
there was so much to choose from.
"People bought more because things
looked attractive," she said, "but
whether they really needed them re-
mains a question."
Designers say objects of the '80s
they will remember with pleasure
include fax machines, personal
stereos, the restaurant range for the
home, Filofax date books, track
lighting, remote control for tele-
vision, ethnic crafts, compact disc
players, and computers that do more
in both home and office.
In interior design, the 1980s
seemed schizophrenic, says Szenasy.
"It supported the two extremes of
minimal Japanese design and or-
nate reproductions."
These two tendencies meet in
postmodernism, which uses all the

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