Daciano da Costa - Design e Mal-Estar

"Design e Mal-Estar", published in 1998 by the Portuguese Design Centre and now in a revised and expanded edition, this collection brings together press articles, interviews, essays, and speeches by Daciano da Costa from 1970 to 2004.

In this anthology, the critical and rigorous thinking of the designer of objects is evident, someone who was able to diagnose the "discomfort" of each era in its slow or rapid social and cultural evolution. A seeker of a certain silent culture, outside the official circuits, Daciano da Costa made drawing his mode of intervention, always with a sharp sense of service and activism, and reflects in these pages, with great frankness, on what he saw in the world and "what he decided to consider design problems."