Reading in Depth
Read the following thoughts about design. Choose your favorite one and explain it.
We have always thought about design as being so much more than just the way something looks. It’s the whole thing.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better.
In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
Write down your own understanding about design on the lines below.
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Bauhaus at the Barbican: Art as Life