deconstructing design
I really believe that a piece of design should reward the second look, the slow encounter. Wit and beauty are the hooks, but subtlety is what keeps people engaged.
“I’m definitely a magpie!” Hugh Miller on joining Pentagram, collecting things, and the importance of subtlety
The ideal isn’t to erase the difference between design and engineering. Each side has its depth, taste, and craft. The goal is simpler: maintain a shared language of making.
The Rosetta Stone of Design Engineering
I think that overlap, that shared percentage of language, is the real definition of velocity.