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zinelove: Good Fucking Design Advice by Brian Buirge and Jason Bacher. Download full collection of wall papers here.
Articles combine personal insights and professional expertise in software development, event management, and business leadership.
It might help to pose two caricatures hypothetical extremes. One is engineering as problem solving, the other is design as creating.
The designer wants to create a solution that fits in a deeper situational or social sense.
Design is messy. Engineering… is not supposed to be messy. The designer can handle the messiness and ambiguity and is willing to trust intuition.
Successful design is done in teams.
The artist is a collector of things, imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity. He takes snapshots, makes notes and records impressions on tablecloths or newspapers, on backs of envelopes or matchbooks. Why one thing and not another is part of the mystery but he is omnivorous.