bashing the usual institutional crap.

today: typo berlin.

why do they have such a bad website? (did i get it right, this is a conference about "information"?) why are the designers bloody pop-stars? ("who needs the moon when we've got the stars?") why does the audience have to queue like lemmings at the cliffs? (reminds me on assembly hall at school) why is the documentation so, uhm, frugal? (is this a pun on the motto "information"?)

please, all you graphic designer's out there, could anyone tell me why masses of your kind spend a load of money and pour into a conference that appears to be so unchallenging and discouraging (concerning graphic design!), so far apart from where your heart is (or i think it should be) and moreover like a rewarmed infusion of last year's event?

just for the party? just to meet somebody you already know and to feel something you already felt before? or at least to feel the spirit of germany's poorest city? (you certainly did not come to berlin to get employed, did you?)

where do you go from here?

perhaps you might need some more mediensalat...? (which is not meant to be a shameless self-promotion but a demand for a more deliberate, a grassroots event culture).

btw. did you talk about politics, too?