Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:    design

There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.
~Milton Glaser

Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.
~David Ogilvy

If no one hates it, no one really loves it.
~Jessica Walsh

Make it simple, but significant.
~Don Draper

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Exercise Prompt for 10/04:   touch

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Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.
~Edward Tufte

Information is only useful when it can be understood.
~Muriel Cooper

Design is the intermediary between information and understanding.
~Hans Hoffman

Design is where science and art break even.
~Robin Mathews

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Posted from the Grove

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
~Isaac Newton

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.
~Michele Bachmann

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn’t working very well!
~Irven DeVore

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.
~Joseph Priestley

God is an assumption, not a conclusion. And it is an assumption that explains nothing.
~Chapman Cohen

Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.
~William A Dembski

You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case, get it out of the science classroom and send it back to church, where it belongs.
~Richard Dawkins

The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.
~William A Dembski

No matter how much proponents of ‘intelligent design’ try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is what it is: religion.
~Cynthia Tucker

First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design.
~E Lee Spence

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~Art Heroes:  The Principles of Design   (2:05)   8 principles defined, depicted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK86XQ1iFVs

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~5-Minute Crafts:  18 Wall Painting Hacks & Design Ideas   (9:16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf1XGpg7PWo

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~Moth:  BLUE   (1:35)   the color blue
https://vimeo.com/187040716

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The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature.
~Michael Shermer

Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
~William A Dembski

The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.
~Richard Dawkins

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
~James Lileks

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.
~Michael Pollan

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VIDEO:

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.
~Jeffrey Zeldman

Design adds value faster than it adds costs.
~Joel Spolsky

A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.
~Jonathan Ive

The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you’re optimizing.
~Fred Brooks

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~Omeleto:  Lila   (9:14)   tour of a gentle dreamer’s designing day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrsFz7ysqoo

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~Designing Women:  Out of my house   (3:08)   Southern proud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQnpEHcrO2A

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The key to great ideas is not having them, it is executing them. And great ideas come from problems.
~Kate Moross

If you can properly define the problem, then you’ve already defined the solution as well.
~Chip Kidd

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We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of the project to uncover the errors that were made because we rushed through the design process
~Glenford Myers

Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.
~Jared Spool

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
~Poul Anderson

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MUSIC as design:

Design is not a single object or dimension. Design is messy and complex.
~Natasha Jen

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
~Steve Jobs

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
~Steve Jobs

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A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it.
~George Gilder

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~kai:  A little too much   (3:44)   B & W design,  amplifier
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/458472240

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~Ray Taylor:  Designer Girl   (2:37)   cowboy with designs on…
https://vimeo.com/15438938

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Dusty Springfield’s Wishin’ and Hopin’

~My Best Friends Wedding remake:  Wishing and Hoping   (3:15)   saccharine by design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa1lyeKyTiQ

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~Glee:  Wishin’ and Hopin’   (1:59)   sapphic, seraphic design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvTYDZu8XsQ

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If design isn’t profitable, then it’s art.
~Henrik Fisker

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That’s freedom.
~Paula Rego

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.
~David Hockney

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Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.
~David Carson

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I don’t know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
~Gary Hamel

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
~Douglas Adams

I’ve always felt that the placement of a man’s testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.
~Mark Lawrence

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© Silvia Truillo

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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
~R Buckminster Fuller

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren’t there.
~Gordon Bell

Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.
~Jon Franklin

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@Writers Platform

The alternative to good design is always bad design. There is no such thing as no design.
~Adam Judge

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
~Robert L Peters

The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.
~Massimo Vignelli

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Glass Table:

~Greenie:
A Dream You Dream

Into my thoughts you move
Silently as you go
Tickling and teasing softly
Moving me so
Finding secrets hidden there
Even I did not see
Bringing out wings that spread
Showing mine to me
Soaring with me oh so high
Joys written on my face
Am I just a dream you dream
Pixels that dance in space

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~Greenie: @I Like the Rain

Morning Meet

Tiny wings flutter
soft winds brush my cheek
twinkling sounds ring
from the twittering beak

Brave little mister
dew drops on demand
ruby throat flashes
as he nears my hand

Fingertip offered
a half moon of sweet
golden sunbeams bright
morning meet complete

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Exercise Prompt:  design

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Color does not add a pleasant quality to design — it reinforces it.
~Pierre Bonnard

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.
~Piet Zwart

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
~Ellen Lupton

Every great design begins with an even better story.
~Lorinda Mamo

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The Exercise:

~BarTalk:
problem

why de sign above de doorway
not de same is on de mat
one say Enter! You Are Welcome
one say Stop! Do Not Come Back
her heart plays a broken record
diamond needle in de wrong track
song she play a pure heart-breaker
she de lay I be wantin’ ‘n what I lack

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Cautionary Tale

He had his longing eye upon her
She had designs including him
Both intentions were romantic
Filled with pure ecstatic awe

Yet their stars somehow failed them
Faithless fate turned against them
His eye caught a minor scarring
Her design declined his flaw

The lesson here’s not hard to find
Rigid standards carved in stone
Yes, ’tis better that love is blind
Both sit at home, sad-lonely and alone

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Indictment

Once benign, refined designs become resigned
maligned by history
Rhine wine, a time so fine, cultured rhymes
of Germany
Asks an unrepentant, unreconstructed, peaceful
old-time hippie
How one man’s stand on racial bans fanned
the war of his destruction
Do we repeat his deceit, his defeat at the seat
of wartime judgement
Or standing tall refuse to fall fomenting all
our children’s ailments

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If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
~Jim Rohn

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.
~Germaine Greer

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
~Carrie-Anne Moss

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https://en.99designs.com.co/

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Video Harvest:  https://vimeo.com,  https://youtube.com

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