Silvio Lorusso provides a stinging critique of the modern design profession in “What Design Can’t Do,” eloquently capturing the pulse of late stage capitalism design. It is effective mirroring many of my own views and complaints over the years which...
“I’m very concerned that our society is much more concerned with information than wonder, in noise rather than silence. How do we encourage reflection? … Oh my, this is a noisy world.”- Mister Rogers Design can be found everywhere. Design decisions are made with...
When I first joined Apple in 2006 I heard a story about a design review meeting involving my manager and Steve Jobs. It went like this: My manager was presenting a new design to Steve and the response was, shall we say, lukewarm. Not a flat refusal but not a...
In 2019 a photo was uploaded on a Reddit community that depicted a graffiti on a wall that read in Chinese characters: “We can’t return to normal because the normal we had was precisely the problem”. That message was written presumably during the Hong Kong unrests but...
