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The State of Design Associations | 11 June 2008

I was cleaning out files yesterday and found the text of a speech I delivered to the Bureau of European Design Agencies (BEDA) in Berlin last year. (I cleaned it up and uploaded it to the Manifestos section here.) The purpose of the speech was to talk about what design associations can do to combat the free pitching problem...

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