Design*Sponge offers savvy, comprehensive guide to Detroit design

Design*Sponge invited local blogger Sweet Juniper
to write an entry on Detroit for its city design guide series. The
result is super-thorough and manages to be egalitarian while separating
the wheat from the chaff.

Excerpt:

The importance of the automobile in Detroit’s history and decline
cannot be understated, and it plays an equally important role in the
area’s tradition of design. Automobile design is often ignored by
mid-century enthusiasts who might prefer a Saarinen womb chair to a
sweet 1957 Lincoln Premiere Two-Door Hardtop, though the origins of
both can be traced here to the Detroit area. Not only is Detroit home
to a large population of artists attracted to the affordable standard
of living, available space, and inspirational post-industrial
cityscape, but also many professional designers who work primarily in
the automotive field.

Read the entire post here.