Design Rules the World

 

The typical person uses a toaster at most 15 min per day. The remaining 1425 minutes of the day the toaster is on display. In other words, 1% of the toaster´s time is devoted to utility, while 99% is devoted to significance. Why shouldn’t it be beautiful?

 

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BMS´s Chris Bangle: “we don’t make cars, we makes moving works of art that express the drivers love of quality.

 

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Good design offers us a chance to bring pleasure, meaning and beauty tour lives. But most important, cultivating a design sensibility can make our  planet a better place. To be a designer is to be an agent of change.

 

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Observe the design around you

 

One of the easiest ways to learn about design , is to pay attention to the good and bad design that you encounter in your daily life. Grab a notebook or a pile of index cards and commit to writing down one thing each day that you think is designed well, and one thing that you think is designed poorly.

 

Be sure to know why you like or dislike the design of something. Remember, everything that you’re using has an element of design.

 

Clothes

transportation

maps

road signs

appliances

dishes

your house or apartment

websites

computers

stores

schools

font

books

 

Bonus points: practice your drawing, and make a quick sketch of each item. Do this for 5 days and see how much more aware you become of the world around you.