Dear Gunnar:
Thank you for the recommendations about the books of design quotes, and
also by the references of design quotes websites, but that is not my point.
I know lot of them very well (or I think so, at least much better than the
conundrums of the English grammar to explain myself), my interest is for
example in the first and last part of your comment to me (about Don comment)
It's the flip side of another well-known maxim: The job expands to fit the
time allotted. If anything ever were on time and on budget, the project
would be inflated to take care of that problem.
Or...
I always thought maxim was a magazine for frat boys.
The choice of that arrangement of words are yours, and yours alone and just
for this ocassion, as is the selection that Don gave us of his maxims
included in the chapter 7 of the last revision and updating of his Design
of Everyday Things.
IMHO, and behind the line given to me for the professor Klaus Krippendorff,
my concern here is about the use of particular design maxims (e.g. form
follows function, etcetera), and the way they are enacted by particular
design thinkers in particular circumstances: a systematic inquiry into how
people (the PHD-Design list members) attribute meanings to artifacts (even
conceptual ones, as in this case the design maxims) and interact with them
accordingly (what their experiences or preferences using them are).
Maxims and principles as artifacts of use, if you authoirze me, in the
everyday life...
Cheers,
Alfredo Gutierrez Borrero
Associate Professor
Industrial Design Program
Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano
Bogota, Colombia
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