Alessandro Mendini, the Italian designer, theorist and editor who passed away this week, speaks to Dezeen about how design magazines have lost their critical edge in this interview recorded in 2015.

Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs interviewed Mendini at the Salone del Mobile, where the designer was that year launching two new products with Italian design brand Kartell. He told Fairs there was "no more ideology" in design today.

The designer, famed for works including influential works of architecture and design including the Proust armchair and the Groninger Museum, was himself an influential theorist, serving as editor of Italian design magazines Casabella, Modo and Domus in the 1970s and 80s.

"If I would do a magazine now, it would be impossible," he said. "The magazines on paper I think could now be good documents, but not in a critical way."

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