Archive for the Designs Category

It’s the Archetypes, Dummy

Or maybe when talking about personality and design it is begin, well, at the beginning, or start with human archetypes.  I recently received that comment back from an excellent theorist on design, Trevor van Gorp. He has a blog/website called affective design focused on emotions and design.   Read the rest of this entry »

Design of Personality

Or maybe the Personality of Design. My latest thoughts on design are coming from an angle of personality. I’m not a psychologist or psychiatrist so I am looking at it from the angle most accessible to me, which is from the Meyers-Briggs Personality Inventory. Certainly not infallible or absolute but at least a starting point. Read the rest of this entry »

Keeping it simple

I was very excited to deliver a walnut bench to a client for a house that is on a Home Tour. It was  rush order from the interior designer to create a piece that would go up against a wall to anchor a piece of art and yet at the same time not compete with the art and at the same time be elegant. Read the rest of this entry »

Good design doesn’t need to be justified

Or so it seems. The other day I was flipping through Architectural Digets’s latest design issue. They had quotes from designers and architects and such on good design. Two of the major themes I gleaned from the quotes were: Good design seems inevitable and good design doesn’t need to be explained. Read the rest of this entry »