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What is good design anyway?

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

R. Buckminster Fuller
Scientist, Philosopher, Poet

What about school?

Thanks to an impetus, motivation and support from my manager Bill Bachman (in addition to a fortunately well-timed phone call) I got a chance to spend some time at the MIT Media Lab with John Maeda and his students in the Physical Language Workshop. I've posted my trip report here.

And in the interest of completeness:

Design is also more than design. It involves people, business and technology. Along those lines:

Travel

I'm as amazed by all the differences when I travel as I am by all the similarities. I'm slowly making my way around and learning a lot in the process.

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Poetry

The Summer Day
Mary Oliver

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean--
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down--
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

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