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Rob Giampietro on Design

Nate Burgos — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:47:19 +0000

Design is only one part of the puzzle: savor the discussion, development, debate, and dissemination of your work just as much as the making of it.…

William Bostwick on Defining Design

Nate Burgos — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:49:49 +0000

Design is a pendulum that swings from then to now as designers look for inspiration in old forms and new ideas, alternately embracing and rejecting the past.…

Mark Thomson on Defining Design

Nate Burgos — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:30:23 +0000

I prefer just to think of design as expression of ideas, and as language. It’s a way of experiencing the world. What I’m interested in is the idea of pleasure, desire, uselessness—of walking through the world with your eyes open. Not cause and effect, but sensation.

This is both an approach to doing work and a way of experiencing the world, designed and undesigned. It’s a liberating approach, because it removes the need to be ‘right’. It’s about looking at design in a democratic way: as something we share rather than something a few people do. A piece of design is the expression of an idea. It’s not a solution.

van Havere on Defining Design

Nate Burgos — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:30:08 +0000

From Julien van Havere, Graphic Designer…

Garrett Dimon on Defining Design

Nate Burgos — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:30:17 +0000

Design is about the underlying purpose and what you want to communicate. Design as decoration, or design without purpose, often hurts more than it helps.…

Susan Everett on Defining Design

Nate Burgos — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:30:16 +0000

To me, design is primarily a verb, not a noun. The interactions and conversations that guide it are very important to the final result.…