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Trends Will Come and Go, but Good Design Is Forever
Great trends reflect a moment in time, but that moment is never fleeting, and the basic idea is more elevated. Good trends always focus on the shift in an underlying human behavior or belief. They don’t describe a single interesting story or a hot new product or industry.
Rohit Bhargava • Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future (Non-Obvious Trends Series)
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Design is much more profound. Styling is very much emotional. Good design isn’t — it’s good forever. It’s part of our environment and culture.”
Zack Bryant • Moral Design — Journey Group
Are rebrands starting to look the same? The challenges defining commercial design
Liz Gornyitsnicethat.com
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Like many writers before me, I tend to lean on vague hand-waving when the need to define taste, or rather, good taste, arises. A common trope is to use the phrase US Supreme Court justice Stewart famously gave to describe obscenity, a similarly hard-to-describe bedfellow of taste, in 1964: “I know it when I see it.” In design, good taste can be kno... See more
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
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Good design is opinionated
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For as long as there is no clear consensus on what design represents, it will be prey to more muddles and clichés.
Alice Rawsthorn • Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
Once you have many people doing something, you have lots of competition and little differentiation. You, generally, never want to be part of a popular trend… So I think trends are often things to avoid. What I prefer over trends is a sense of mission. That you are working on a unique problem that people are not solving elsewhere.
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
Design has evolved to meet the challenge of the new relationship between people and the material goods they need. Today, designers — artisans, manufacturers, engineers, architects — think far beyond the way things look. Comparing pre-industrial design to post-industrial design with a picture is absurd. Critiquing a modern object based on its appear... See more