July 2010
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Personal Principles of Design, In No Particular...
The following constitute version 1 of my personal principles of design:
1. Design objects and use materials that become more beautiful with age. When scratches, dirt, and exposure to sunlight lend an object more aesthetic depth and loveability, then one ceases fighting a losing battle against inexorable entropy and can embrace the nuanced aesthetic of age. Synthetic materials, generally...
March 2010
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Craft and Design Carrying Dialectical Weight
As much as I’d like to believe one could design a space or craft an item that carried the conceptual and dialectical weight of an entire philosophical system, I can’t see how it’s possible. The more concrete and functional a thing becomes, the less explicit the conceptual content becomes. It might suggest a functional innovation; but with any practical function, the utility...
February 2010
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Rendering the Subjective in Objective Terms
It was in Søren Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscripts to Philosophical Fragments that I discovered the term “dialectical intrepidity.” I may have extrapolated from this turn of phrase more of what I wanted to hear than what Kierkegaard himself intended; I may have ran with it, emblazoning it in the margins of countless notebooks, raising it as the symbolic emblem of...
Inception
I need to document my various processes. I need well-conceived records that will recommend me to crucial people for crucial undertakings. I need to create in such a way that conduces to retrospective consideration. This inaugural documentary effort is a statement of my purpose as I see it now, and window dressing, such as it is, for an otherwise empty page, preserving it from howling desolation in...
