By Design
I think this book’s introduction
does an amazing job of displaying how design is all around us. So many people
are ignorant of the world’s designs and in being so ignore any possibility of
ever changing the world through it’s own rules. Someone can accomplish a couple
great things on their own, but aided with design can elevate their work onto a
higher plane. As Caplan said, “Designers won’t save the world, but the design
process may make it worth saving.”
Toothpicks and Logos
This entire reading is talking
about the diversity of design and how it can be used anywhere. It also
addresses how today’s media has assigned the coveted title “design” to
superfluous things that are fleeting and somewhat unimportant in the grand
scheme of things. I appreciate the idea that design is “behind the scenes” in
literally everything that has ever existed. That isn’t an exaggeration, it’s
the truth.
Aside from this, design is unique
to the human person. Only humans have developed the capacity to design the
world in the ways we do. Can dolphins design things? I don’t think so. Polar
bears? As awesome as that would be, no, they can’t.
Design, by its very nature, is not
set in stone. The essentials change with what people required, and people in
different stages and places in life required very different things.
Understanding Design
This was
honestly my least favorite of the three “design definition” books we read. It
had a very definitive “this is right and this is wrong” feel to it, and I don’t
really appreciate that when you’re talking about something as subjective as
design.
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