Thursday, January 18, 2024

what is "design"?

what is design? the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system or measurable human interaction.

any design starts with a mark.

this is one of the first marks: a signature, early homo sapiens blows a reddish powder on his hand on the cave's wall to leave his imprint for posterity.


this is a formidable monumental massive mark. the pyramids in Egypt.


which can be schematized as follows:


a modern mark? take the famous rietveld chair (i own one),


which started as a plan,



or a ferrari, a technological beauty (you can get this for just $350,000)


a Ferrari sketch, 




or this gorgeous campanile, an example of tower, which of course,


started as a drawing, a plan for an elevation. but even before the drawing, it was a mark in the mind of Bonanno Pisano.


how about this monster?

the ENIAC is the first digital computer, 1943


you all carry it to class as this version:

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