By Jessica • 18 years ago

Kittens of design?


Contributed by Jess Wakeman.
Readers of Step Inside Design’s December/January issue bared their claws when the magazine chose to illustrate their “women of design” issue with….kittens.
Wrote one angry reader:
“Congratulations on degrading your well-written, well-researched articles with a cover that portrays these hard-working, intelligent, and creative women as a bunch of adorable, cuddly and nonthreatening housepets.”
Wrote a male reader:
“I’ll bet a bag of cat litter that if it had been about leading men of design, you would’ve shown their faces or samples of their work.”
Mag representatives wrote in their February/March issue that they were trying to “change connotations by re-appropriating them,” pointing out that’s why Spike Lee can make a film about minstrel shows and Mel Brooks can make a film about ‘Springtime for Hitler.’ But I still say…hiss!

Via Romenesko.

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