A few weeks ago we brought word of Metropolis’ brilliant current issue, which asks, in large part courtesy Official Edificial Top-Five-to-Seven editors Martin C. Pedersen and recently birthdayed Kristi Cameron, What is Good Design Now? And then we went to Pecha Kucha, where we saw some more plausible answers, and then we didn’t go to LVHRD WRK/PLY or Slate’s “What is Good Design?” panel complete with Pentagrammer Paula Scher and mysterious architect Ahmad Sardar-Afkhami. But our sister-from-another-mister and Domestic Officer Kelsey Keith sure did.

And ripped our hearts out, dredging them through acidic vinegar as she thought about all those confluences for Flavorwire. Points for the namecheck of Edifave artist Roy McMakin, the reminder of the epic fail that was Arnell’s Tropicana rebranding, and a mention of the glorious sun that lit up this weekend.

This is a debate that’s going to go on, forever and ever, until we’re living in a day that’s after the day after tomorrow, and it’s a debate we’re happy to keep chiming in on. Let’s keep the conversation going, people. You never know what answers we might discover, in between the Dewars and the schmoozing, the presentations and the contemplations. Some of them might even be useful.

Design Boom or Bust: What People Are Talking About Now [Flavorwire]