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Archive for the Designs Category
It’s the Archetypes, Dummy
16. July 2008 by Joe Gergen.
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 »
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Design of Personality
24. June 2008 by Joe Gergen.
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 »
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Keeping it simple
7. June 2008 by Joe Gergen.
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 »
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Good design doesn’t need to be justified
6. June 2008 by Joe Gergen.
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 »
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