There is design to this page. There is design in most things you interacted with today…probably without your recognition.
Whether it’s advertising or truly functional user experience; the place you live, or even your thoughts…many people put great effort into influencing others with design.
Hell, some people do it all simply for the sake of design.
This week, we’re all about the D!
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We begin with our earliest memories of people putting in an extra effort into this thing called design. After that, we chat about how aware we were of the effort put into everyday design. (Shawn’s epiphany in and Arby’s is rather beautiful!)
We chat about whether or not we’ve designed cool things…and what those things might be.
How does design affect mood? We talk about that…as well as how environment and upbringing affect design.
We get all hypothetical and chat about if we could be a designer of any sort…what we’d make. Then we talk about our favorite designers and what they’ve done.
How important is technology to design — we chat about that! We also chat about how important design is to advertising. (Spoiler: it DRIVES advertising in every way!)
Some people love what they know. Are some designs so sacred that we should never alter them? We talk about that before wrapping it all up with the future of design…
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I have to chime in here and provide a counterpoint to your “churches have good architecture” claim. I think H.L. Mencken put it best (I can’t find the exact quote but I found a good article of him denigrating the architecture of houses and churches in Pittsburgh https://www.thoughtco.com/g00/libido-for-the-ugly-by-mencken-1690254?i10c.referrer=
& another http://tonusperegrinus.blogspot.be/2013/07/hl-mencken-on-church-architecture.html
The main thrust of the quote I’m thinking of was about how most churches in America are just squares or rectangles with fancy windows crammed in.
The Pontiac Aztek was designed to be functional (because it was a hatchback with tent accessories, etc) but it wasn’t dependable or durable. There are a number of shortcomings they had like they just CHEW up wheel bearings around every 30-40k miles, and the DeathCool anti-freeze eats the intake manifold gasket on the 3400 motor they all came with: https://itstillruns.com/34-chevy-motor-problems-5697207.html My dad sold cars for just over 33 years and the split glass hatch caused all sorts of headlights-coming-up-behind-you reflective screwiness in his opinion.
Tesla may have “good design” if you consider a cheap minimalism with shoddy parts, assembled badly, and like the company completely illegally keeping customers from accessing their Event Data Recorders (which they claim aren’t EDRs). Musk is a blowhard piece of crap who like any famous arsehole never came up with anything on his own, he only steals credit for all the hard work of others, and has doomed Tesla to bankruptcy.
http://dailykanban.com/2017/07/fremont-problem-starts-m/