The Designer as Author: A Symposium on the Legacy of Hard Werken (1979-1994)

“We were artists who made design, today they are designers who make art” - Gerard Hadders, 2014 Described by Hard Werken, One for All co-author Ian Horton, the members of the Dutch design studio (Willem Kars, Kees de Gruiter, Tom van den Haspels, Gerard Hadders, Rick Vermeulen and Hank Elenga) were autonomous artists.  Starting with…