everyday hero: intuitive | self-explanatory . . .

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everyday design hero:
intuitive | self-explanatory . . .

“the aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity & familiarity.”

philosopher ludwig wittgenstein

01) lightness . . .

02) enhancing civility . . .

03) beautility . . .

04) robust, resilient & repairable . . .

05) embracing aspects of homo ludens . . .

06) anthropomorphic . . .

07) adaptable | transformable . . .

08) intuitive | self-explanatory . . .

09) accessible to 90% of the world . . .

10) a variation on a theme . . .

11) ephemeral . . .

12) wabi-sabi (grows better with time &/or use) . . .

13) improvisation . . .
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i know that in my own work, the best things are things that just happened. images that were suddenly caught and that i hadn’t anticipated. we don’t know what the unconscious is, but every so often something wells up in us. it sounds pompous
nowadays to talk about the unconscious, so maybe it’s better to say, ‘chance’.
i believe in a deeply ordered chaos and in the rules of chance. i have to hope
that my instincts will do the right thing . . .

francis bacon
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architecture is created, ‘invented anew,’ by each man who attempts her, who roams her space, climbs a stair, rests on a balustrade, lifts his head to look, open, close a door, who sits down or gets up and makes intimate contact with – and at the same time ‘forms’ in – the space ( . . .) this intimate, fiery, contact, that which was perceived by man at the beginning, is today forgotten. routine and communal places made man forget the natural beauty of “moving in space,” of his conscious movement, of those little gestures . . .

lina bo bardi
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design is like making soup . . .
naoto fukasawa
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logic is not as powerful as intuition . . .
milton glaser
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suggested reading &/or the dialects of design continued, intuitive | self-explanatory:

01) bodin, frank. do it, with love. mainz, verlag hermann schmidt, 2015.
02) bodin, frank. is it love? mainz, verlag hermann schmidt, 2021.
03) duits, thimo de, editor. dinge: sammlung museum boijmans van beuningen. ostfildern, cantz verlag, 1998.
04) fulton suri, jane. thoughtless acts ?. san francisco, chronicle books, 2005.
05) gladwell, malcolm. blink: the power of thinking without thinking.
boston, back bay books, little, brown, 2005.
06) jongejans, charles. allesbehalve plat. amsterdam, de buitenkant, 1989.
07) jongerius, hella. i don’t have a favourite colour.
creating the vitra colour & material library. berlin, gestalten, 2016.
08) lupton, ellen, and andrea lipps. the senses: design beyond vision.
new york, princeton architectural press, 2018.
09) martens, karel. printed matter/drukwerk. london, hyphen press, 2001.
10) morrison, jasper. a world without words. baden, lars müller publishers, 1998.
11) morrison, jasper, and naoto fukasawa. super normal sensations of the ordinary.
baden, lars müller publishers, 2007.