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Matt Webb on Design

Feed reeders will probably have to click through for the video, but it’s worth it, especially if you’re interested in design. Some choice info from the video to whet your whistle.

design is the conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order – victor papanek

some people (they are wrong) say design is about solving problems.

obviously designs do solve problems, but so do dentists. design is about cultural invention. – jack shulze

culture is “the things that make life interesting” – bruno minari author, ‘Design is Art’

A macroscope is…. “something that helps us see what the aggregation of many small actions looks like when added together.” John Thackera

possibly in space, the approach to vegetables might be different. did that every strike you, because we are thinking of 3 dimensional vegetables. Maybe in space, where you’ve got sunlight all around, you might get a 2 dimensional tomato, it might be one million miles long, thin as a sheet of paper, aimed towards the sun. Congressman Fulton, 1959.

We are as gods and might as well get used to it. Whole Earth Catalog, issue 1, sentence one.

“People who are native to the web” – Matt Webb

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