Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
We were invited to design an object that fully captured all the energy of our imagination—something between a tool and a piece of architecture that roundly rejected the standard dimensions on which the built world is generally arrayed, and proposed instead a way for Amanda’s body and the room to meet each other differently.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
A Beijing courtyard home, in contrast, turns its face inward, hiding its most attractive features behind gates and walls.
Michael Meyer • The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
his distinctive style of architecture.
Peter Sims • Little Bets: How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries
The key elements of good entry point design are minimal barriers, points of prospect, and progressive lures.1
Kritina Holden • Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design
Allison
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In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste.