Moral Design — Journey Group
Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.
-Virginia Postrel, The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value is Rem
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What Modernism Can’t Teach Us: Starting to define our era of design
Most people are not impressed with the way things look today. We have written previously about the nostalgia response to this state of affairs. Now we turn to the question of how we got here, and where we go.
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instagram.comWhen design is deployed wisely, it can bring us pleasure, choice, strength, beauty, comfort, decency, sensitivity, compassion, integrity, ambition, security, prosperity, diversity, camaraderie and so much more. But if its power is abused, the outcome can be wasteful, confusing, humiliating, scary, enraging, even dangerous.
Alice Rawsthorn • Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
Future designers are not high performers and ROI champions. They are responsible stewards.