“Likewise, good design history is not just a roster of names, dates, and objects; it is the history of how we have come to believe what we believe about design. The biggest difference is this: Bad design history offers us
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“A country, finally, erodes and the dust blows away, the people all die and none of them were of any importance permanently, except those who practised the arts, and these now wish to cease their work because it is too
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“The super normal object is the result of a long tradition of evolutionary advancement in the shape of everyday things, not attempting to break with the history of form but rather trying to summarise it…”
–Jasper Morrison, Super Normal
Dwell has a great article out today about Dutch Graphic Designer Karel Martens. In the article, Martens explains the importance that limitations have served in his work, becoming the launchpad from which his work springs. Learning to→
