Sometimes I wonder whether I owe our readers an apology. Like most design critics, I tend to write about what happens when design projects work, when intelligent designers try to make our lives a little better - and succeed.
Luckily, those successes happen from time to time, but not nearly as often as new designs flop. The inspiring innovations are exceptions. All you’ve got to do, if you can bear it, is glance at the contents of a shopping mall, an e-commerce Web site or a trade fair to realize that most of the new designs flooding onto the market are failures.