AUTHENTIC ANONYMITY
Rowe makes the point that Mies was concerned with anonymity. In Mies’ view, the idea was superordinant. The fact and the form were secondary. And this anonymity was deeply rooted in classicism. Beaux Arts...
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THE CULTURAL DIALOGUE OF FORMS
The forms that you design becomes markers of social order. Our forms, our stuff, our crap, becomes talismans of cultural value. Forms are a cultural road map: they are in direct conversation with the...
DESIGN BLOCKCHAIN 2
Do you want your design to be done by a human or by the machine? This will be one of the key questions as we move toward automation. Authenticity, as I said a few...
DESIGN BLOCKCHAIN
Provenance. Authenticity. I kept thinking about these concepts as I read the interesting and funny article by Nick Paumgarten in the 22 Oct. issue of The New Yorker, which discusses blockchains. The article focuses...
SET YOURSELF UP FOR FAILURE
In many instances, I never know how my drawing is going to turn out. That’s because I try to incorporate new means and methods whenever I have a new idea. We have talked about...
DEPICTACTION
Let’s attack another binary, representation (or depiction) vs abstraction. The representation / abstraction binary has informed our thinking in these pages since the beginning. This was first broached on the page LETTER TO HELEN....
BECOMING TRANSPARENT DRAWING
Like I’ve said before, I’m bad at social media. So when Transparent Drawing is tagged on Facebook; actually, when Gail White, who is a poet, writes a short poem titled Becoming Transparent Drawing, I...
DRAWING MACHINES
Since the beginning, machines have been developed with the goal of reducing subjective human interpretation. This thought has been with us since the 17th century, and has basically been unchanged into today. And of...
SCIENTIFIC MODERNISM
This is how scientific discovery happens. Scientific discovery happens when it is observed that nature violates an accepted scientific paradigm. That is to say, when the expectations of a paradigm no longer match nature,...
SUPERFICIAL IMAGES
Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida have all argued that the dominance of vision in our culture has only served to separate ourselves from the world. While I don’t agree with this premise, I do understand...
FIRE PHONE
Amazon introduced their new Fire Phone. A technology perk that tries to distinguish the Fire from any other phone is what Amazon calls “dynamic perspective.” The cameras on the device tracks the position that...
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