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Lined & Unlined · Form-giving
- - The problem is one of content. The misconception is that without deep content, design is reduced to pure style, a bag of dubious tricks. In graphic-design circles, form-follows-function is reconfigured as form-follows-content. If content is the source of form, always preceding it and imbuing it with meaning, form without content (as if that were ... See more
from Fuck Content by Tim Gambell
- To design is to make decisions for others. Because it involves an exchange of power, however slight, design is best understood as a moral pursuit.
from Moral Design — Journey Group by Zack Bryant
- Sebastian Deterling: Whatever we put out there as a piece of design, into the world, has a persuasive component. It tries to affect people. It puts a certain vision of the good life out there in front of us. No matter whether we as designers intend it or not, we materialize morality. We make certain things harder and easier to do. We organize... See more
from My Vision: A New City by Alan Chan
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design should address a mix of what historian John Heskett summarizes as “utility and significance.”
from What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren
design must cross the line that separates commercial-functional benchmarks from cultural relevance and spirituality. This book examines that fine line as it courses through our material culture, distinguishing “great” from “good,” creative strategies from imitative acts, and excellence from also-ran mediocrity.
from A Fine Line by Hartmut Esslinger
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Design is hope made visible.
You can live your life as the result of history and what came before, or you can live your life as the cause of what’s to come. You choose.
When talent doesn’t hustle, hustle beats talent. But when talent hustles, watch out.
When you work only for money, without any love for what you do in and of itself, your work will lac... See morefrom 101 Design Rules by wearecollins.com
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