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Ian Anderson Designers Republic By 1997 the Designers Republic influence on the formative years of digital culture was hard to deny. As Ian Anderson says in this video clip, their work was always popular with the "trainspotter" element who still made up a large proportion of the committed Web surfers. At the beginning of 1997, when tDR's on-line newsgroup that was launched, one of the most Frequently Asked Questions was, "How come they didn't have their own official Web site", when so many others were dedicating their own web space to DR tributes (see below left)? Later in the year the official site went into construction. In the video Ian Anderson describes how Designers Republic saw the newsgroup as a means for supporting interaction between the international community (?) of over 7,000 DR-watchers. After you're viewing is over, why not visit the newsgroup and swap notes about what you thought of it with the others? But remember: they can hear you in the Republic... | |||||||||||||||