In 2006 Daniel van der Velden wrote Research and Destroy for METROPOLIS M magazine, in which he argued against the idea of designers as ‘the proletariat of the creative industry, silently executing what their clients dictate’. Two years later he and Vinca Kruk published as Metahaven the pamphlet ‘White Night Before A Manifesto’ (image) which continues to discusses contemporary conditions of design practice, and some of their political consequences.
