Hi Stansilav,
I can't help you.
Our library is currently in storage and I don't have access to the sources from my office.
All I can tell you from memory is that I was first introduced to this work by a colleague, Dick Rainer, in the library at the Sunderland College of Art round about 1970 while tracing some of the origins of design thinking back to the Bauhaus. I subsequently used the material in a number of publications, including my book on *Visual Communication and Learning* in a section called Visual Communication and Practice: The legacy of the Bauhaus. (pp 49-52). though I did not use the quote at that stage.
The reference I gave there was:
> Moholy-Nagy, L. The New Vision: fundamentals of design painting sculpture architecture. Translated by Daphne Hoffman. W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1938.
I have subsequently used the quote I cited in a number of publications, always giving the above reference, but I notice that I did not give a page reference (very naughty of me!)
Perhaps you can clarify its provenance.
Warm Regards,
David
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On 26 Aug 2014, at 1:54 pm, Stanislav Roudavski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> Design has many connotations. It is the organisation of materials
>>>> and processes in the most productive, economic way, in a harmonious
>>>> balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. it is not
>>>> a matter of facade, of mere external appearance; rather it is the
>>>> essence of products and institutions, penetrating and comprehensive.
>>>> Designing is a complex and intricate task. It is the integration of
>>>> technological, social and economic requirements, biological
>>>> necessities, and the psychophysical effects of materials, shape,
>>>> colour, volume, and space:
>>>> thinking in relationships. (Moholy-Nagy 1938)
>
> A minor point but is this citation not from:
>
> Moholy-Nagy, László (1947). Vision in Motion (Chicago: Theobald), p. 42
>
> rather than from his "New Vision" (which is 1928 and not 1938, as Von material zu architektur)??
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