{"id":55,"date":"2002-06-25T21:30:32","date_gmt":"2002-06-26T04:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=55"},"modified":"2018-11-24T02:10:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T21:10:39","slug":"the-danger-with-dinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/the-danger-with-dinners\/","title":{"rendered":"The danger with dinners&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Brno, Czech Republic<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At a recent dinner meeting of the boards of the \u201cthree sisters\u201d of design\u2014Icograda (International Council of Graphic Design Associations), IFI (International Federation of Interior Architects\/Designers), and ICSID (International Council of Societies of Industrial Design), and following a historic two-day joint board meeting to discuss the potential formation of a multi-disciplinary alliance\u2014architect and designer Olle Anderson (president of IFI) drew this insightful napkin sketch\u2026 His point was that as designers get older, we engage in ever more \u201cdinners\u201d and less and less professional output. Though I hope this isn\u2019t the case, it seemed to have enough truth to it that I felt obliged to share. (After weeks of volunteer NGO activity away from the studio, it\u2019s easy to begin to question one\u2019s very raison d\u2019\u00eatre\u2026).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/dinners.jpg\" alt=\"dinners.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brno, Czech Republic At a recent dinner meeting of the boards of the \u201cthree sisters\u201d of design\u2014Icograda (International Council of Graphic Design Associations), IFI (International Federation of Interior Architects\/Designers), and ICSID (International Council of Societies of Industrial Design), and following a historic two-day joint board meeting to discuss the potential formation of a multi-disciplinary alliance\u2014architect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,8,13,14,17,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17188,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/17188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}