> It's really difficult for me to see Newson's work as anything but very, very anachronistic. His formal language seems to me to be hopelessly trapped in the 90s.

I could not agree more. Newson is someone I really want to like because he seems like a cool guy, but I've just never been very impressed with either his work or how he talks about it.

He's most famous for this: http://static0.bornrichimages.com/wp-content/uploads/s3/imag...

Which I find to be a cool idea, but:

a) not very functional b) not very aesthetically pleasing in execution

A lot of that is just my taste, but I did not expect to see the top voted comment here be something I so thoroughly agreed with.