Alice Rawsthorn

Design is an ever changing amorphous entity. In recent decades designers have been moving beyond a strictly commercial role, into social, political, and environmental ventures. Alice Rawsthorn has been there to chronicle and champion the growth of the field. She’s been a foreign correspondent for The Financial Times, and a design columnist for the New York Times, where she kept a close eye on how the world has changed design and how designers have changed the world. Her latest book is called Design as an Attitude.

Debbie talks to Alice Rawsthorn about the growing status of design.