What is Design My tutor’s favourite line in my early college days was to ask us “What is Design.” That answer was always plain and simple, “Problem Solving.” But it encompasses much more than that. Design is a plan or blueprint that provides a structural meaning to our environment, natural or otherwise. It can consist […]
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Design Matters: Arts and Crafts Movement
A Return to Arts and Crafts Exploring the basic principles and finding the “Why” as outlined by the Arts and Crafts movement. How important is the Arts and Crafts movement in terms of how we produce objects of design today? What has been its lasting legacy? Are we increasingly turning our back on mass produced […]