Lei‘s assignment 1

Quotes from the "What is the designer"

1． It may be true that book-learning never made a designer; indeed, the best informed and most articulate people may be the least directly productive. (Page 76, Chapters 7)

2． The following notes develop a simple-minded strategy, in the form of map-making. By this means, an apprehensive student can hold the whole situation in the palm of his hand, and decide how best to serve his own priorities. (Page 76, Chapters 7)

3． Books are no exception, but all books are available to those who want them enough. (Page 77, Chapters 7)

4． For the present, design students risk an impoverishment of their work is they attempt to study one design category in conceptual isolation from its neighbors (and parents). (Page 79, Chapters 7)

5． If you want to link hands with the spirit of the modern movement, it won’t come to meet you; you must go and make is your own. (Page 109, Chapters 8)

Ideas from the "what is the designer"

1. “The following notes develop a simple-minded strategy, in the form of map-making. By the means, an apprehensive student can hold the whole situation in the palm of his hand, and decide how best to serve his own priorities.”

This sentence lets me think about how to be a student which can manage all things very well.(Page 76)

2. “What sort of books is it useful for a designer to read?” the author put this question after he introduces the situation of designers read books. And he answered “However, such reading will certainly include books with no ostensible bearing upon the contingencies of design practice”, “not merely with potency, but with resonance” and he gives 27 categories to audience.

That is a very interesting and useful idea for me because I need read many books, but I do not want to waste time in read useless book. This idea point out the way for me. (Page 77)

3. “Certain biographical studies become historical documents in virtue of subject and authorship, and these are worth watch for.”

That is another interesting idea for me because I never thought I can learn some useful things from biographical. That idea and examples changed my mind. (Page 81)

4. “For the present, design students risk an impoverishment of their work is they attempt to study one design category in conceptual isolation from its neighbors (and parents).”

This sentence and other things those are author wrote after that is a warning for me. (Page 79)

5. Design is thus simultaneously a realm of values and a matter of engrossingly particular decisions, many of which are highly technical.

The author explains "design" by his opinion and that is a new definition for me.(Page 109)