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“Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.”

World Matter Causes Effects Design Creatures Ocean Relation Bounds Shore Thread Fabric Surroundings Living Things Cause And Effect Intricate Weaving Fabric Of Life

Book:The Edge of the Sea

Source: The Edge of the Sea

“Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.”

Problem Hands Language Design Understood Direct Relation Designer Visuals Obscure Criteria Good Design Stylish Trendy

Author:Ivan Chermayeff

“A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst, industry public relations department, captive think tank academic and so on), you ought to be very skeptical. By design messages from these people are intended to move markets, move merchandise and/or move public policy and are not a comment on the state of the physical universe.”

“Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.”

Wells Art Eye Creative Blood Design Elements Art Is Relation Various Bones Recognition Dimensions Fourth Flux

Book:Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.”

“The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.”

Life Art Ideas Philosophy Seems Belief History Events Design Bears Elements Tragedy Relation Simplicity Inherent Bizarre Grandeur Bewildered Preconceived Ideas

Book:The Holy Terrors

Source: The Holy Terrors

“No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment.”

“[The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to the place of computing in their ongoing activities. System design, it follows, must include not only the design of innovative technologies, but their artful integration with the rest of the social and material world.”

People World Social Technology Design Materials Activity Relation Defined Integration Innovative Ongoing Dynamics Computing Material World Interfaces Artifacts

Author:Lucy Suchman

“Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.”

World Needs Art Problem Causes Interesting Situation Design Circumstances Relation Arise Designer Clients Best Work Open Minded Good Causes Interesting Situations

Book:Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

Source: Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students