design is that which defines.. everythingno wonder we have trouble defining it... when we try to, our sub-conscious is infact spiralling into a design for design, tick-tac-toe misadventure. Hmm.. and this is reason too why poetry has always been used to describe beauty.. and attempts to see beauty through mathematically quantifiable units alone, result in trying to hold water with a clenched fist.. you may get your hands wet but it's not much to quench the thrist.. or whet the appetite for worship.
design for us as designers is but the mind of the grand designer revealed throughout all creation... reflections of his thought that we see in the work of men.. we call 'good design'.It's an "Ahaa.." that our eyes express that resonates with the "Ahaa.." of our intellect.could design also be the fragrance of a flower we haven't known from a land we havent seen..?
--- On Mon, 6/23/08, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: the opposite definition
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Monday, June 23, 2008, 9:40 PM
It would be very hard to work out when design (as we collectively
understand it to mean) came in to effective use in our language,
when we can't even successfully define it yet.... :-)
The Great Exhibition of 1851 helped illustrate the 'lack of design' of
Victorian manufactured products against those
manufactured by hand and via 'arts and crafts' from overseas. It might
be
argued we knew what the 'absence of design' was from that date.
Design and Product design is probably much more recent - starting with the
big 3 - Bel Geddes, Loewy and Teague, and of course the Bauhaus, etc.
It seems the problem, is more focused on who accepts the concept of a
designer. Society has created the designer fad, and that genie
can't quite fit back in the hand manufactured bottle of the last century.
If, as I now worry, design is what each of us believes it to be, not only
will it be nearly impossible to concur on that definition, then
it will be open to abuse as a belief mechanism.
For example, the sub phrase/ sub plot 'everyone will be a designer'
cannot
be argued against or even analysed, regardless of language. Best, Glenn
Eduardo wrote:
Dear Terry and Glenn,
I think that the interesting query/quest is to ask when did Design entered
your language, spite of your own word for it, and meaning what?
Cheers,
Eduardo
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