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Eames’s Legendary “Powers of 10”

October 9, 2014 By brenda michelson

Increasingly, designers are shifting scale from rethinking artifacts (whether buildings, posters or toasters) toward whole systems thinking. I would call this a scale shift from, let’s say, 10^1 to 10^5. Prompted originally by environmental thinking and more recently by the rise of networks and globalization, we are starting to recognize that it is impossible to […]

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Dieter Rams: Ten Principles For Good Design

August 6, 2014 By brenda michelson

Is innovative – The possibilities for progression are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for original designs. But imaginative design always develops in tandem with improving technology, and can never be an end in itself. Makes a product useful – A product is bought to be used. It has […]

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