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While ever the vast majority of journalism is obsessed with the stylish object and the beautiful image we should not be surprised if business people, young designers and the public at large assume that is what design is about. While I applaud [Nussbaum’s] personal efforts to champion Design Thinking perhaps the opening line for his next talk can be “Design journalism sucks.

Tim Brown, IDEO, in response to Bruce Nussbaum’s speech “Are Designers The Enemy of Design?”

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Crossing Swords, Matthew Brannon.  Image from Friedrich Petzel Gallery.  Brannon’s works are currently on display at the Whitney Museum at Altria.

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Who ever said that pleasure wasn’t functional?

Charles Eames

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You cannot order a deluxe grilled cheese sandwich. There are limits to deluxe.

Maira Kalman, The Principles of Uncertainty | The New York Times

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Design Within Reach's Spirits Are Up (Even If the Profits Aren't Quite At the Same Place Just Yet)

Because we find it interesting, and we keep pretending that you do too, allow us to report once again… (via Sierra’s shared items in Google Reader)

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Leaving Room for the Troublemakers - New York Times

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Should museums take a more critical stance towards culture?

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At a lecture at NYU’s Casa Italiana tonight, Massimo Vignelli described his relationship with his clients as similar to the interactions between doctor and patient. A client comes to him detailing the symptoms of the problem, and Vignelli diagnoses the situation, suggesting different options for treatment.

Later on, Vignelli spoke about the proliferation of type designs due to computers and accessibility to design tools. Instead of using technology to refine design, said Vignelli, amateur designers equipped with computers make it more vulgar.

If desktop publishers were doctors, we would all be dead.

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Marketing is a science that has been invented in this country to release management from their fear of failure…  Fear of failure is the worst thing that can happen to a culture.

Massimo Vignelli, lecture, New York, March 28, 2007

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One Picture, 1,000 Tags

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A Matter of Art + Semantics

Here’s a fascinating, and slightly amusing story about museums’ efforts to engage the public to annotate their collections via social tagging. NEWSgrist posts extensive excerpts of the full article from the New York Times, One Picture, 1,000 Tags.

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(via Sierra’s shared items in Google Reader)

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