This week, Bravo isn’t airing a new
Top Design so we decided to take a look out in the blogosphere to find out: what do working designers think of
Top Design? Tops or Nots?
Retail Design Diva
, a retail design weblog, thinks the show features “some phenomenal up-and-coming talent” and that it’s “an added bonus to the show is the sneak peak into the personalities of some of the top leaders in the design world today” via judges Jonathan Adler and host Todd Oldham.
Design firm “Design Public”
says on their blog that while they enjoy the show, they have a quibble with the structure. They don’t know why the design process is over thirty-five minutes into the show, saying, “I’d rather watch more of the disastrous design process than a bunch of judging.”
Hipster retailer
Fred Flare’s blog also has some issues with not just the set-up, but even the premise of the show: “The show has some serious probz. There’s an overall lack of energy on everyone’s part and then there’s the projects. This week’s was better but maybe they’re too large to really see the designers’ talent work it out. And the shopping and the budgets… have got to go. You know, a friend of mine described the show’s problems to what The Apprentice: Martha Stewart experienced. It’s an exact replica of a hit show and not enough of a show on its own.”
Design within Reach’s Blog doesn’t have much to say about the design on the show, but they love judge Kelly Wearstler’s fashion sense a little more than we do around here, saying: “She’s just plain lovable and her fashions match her interior design work. She rocks teal leg warmers and frizzed/crimped out Pomeranian hairdos with equal panache.”
Just goes to show: style is subjective!
- Leslie Seaton, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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