Monday, 11 October 2010

mrgan:

Dan Wineman comments on an article in Design Observer:

Here’s what I don’t get. In an article beginning with the sentence “We snoop around other peoples’ desks because we think we will learn something — and hopefully something profound — about the kind of person who works there,” I would have expected at least a passing mention of what I think is the most revealing feature of this particular desk…

Read through for the punchline. This sort of thing makes people think design is just a bunch of Germans nitpicking Helvetica. A similar thing happens in the world of wine, where much of the writing about it is such a hollow word-salad that you can’t really blame anyone for assuming that the whole thing is in some way a scam.

mrgan: Dan Wineman comments on an article in Design Observer: Here’s what I don’t get. In an article beginning with the sentence “We snoop around other peoples’ desks because we think we will learn something — and hopefully something profound — about the kind of person who works there,” I would have expected at least a passing mention of what I think is the most revealing feature of this particular desk… Read through for the punchline. This sort of thing makes people think design is just a bunch of Germans nitpicking Helvetica. A similar thing happens in the world of wine, where much of the writing about it is such a hollow word-salad that you can’t really blame anyone for assuming that the whole thing is in some way a scam.

(Via Neven Mrgan's tumbl.)