Archive for February 2010

15 Feb 2010 2133H

Perhaps this is a bit mean to say, but

Look.
If all design is merely form giving, then can you really complain about the people who are working at the tail end of the design process, primarily aestheticians — alright — decorators — who are tasked with the job of making something look good, that is, what Viktor Papanek called “shroud design”, rather than [...]

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13 Feb 2010 1318H

The Ah Ha moment

just arrived. This morning, doggedly pursuing leads on the internet in my pursuit of my new intellectual project, the history of design in East Asia, I ran across this article by Matthew Turner, a professor at Edinburgh Napier University. In this journal he writes (forgive me for quoting wholesale here):
For some time, now, Occam’s razor [...]

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12 Feb 2010 1948H

Let’s just call design what it is

From my private study, from all the reading I have done and the observations I have made, I think it is now safe to declare design what I really think it is. Design as we know it today really is a western way of looking, thinking, and shaping, that flows from many very long aesthetic [...]

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08 Feb 2010 2330H

World’s most helpful dialog

Thank you Borland for your extremely helpful dialog from your very reliable product, CaliberRM. And here’s our winning dialog, which I am now seeing on a regular basis:

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