made me smile – swissmiss

Good design is often slightly funny.

This one may not always be true. But Durer's

engravings

and Saarinen's

womb chair

and the

Pantheon

and the original

Porsche 911

all seem to me slightly funny. Godel's incompleteness theorem seems like a practical joke.

I think it's because humor is related to strength. To have a sense of humor is to be strong: to kee... See more