My first attempt with photoshop.
Its hand-drawn, overlaid with drawings in both Illustrator, Photoshop, and organized in InDesign

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            Design is a part of our everyday lives; either out in the open or behind the scenes. It has constantly been a part of our history, a part of our lives. Steadily, it has taken on a life of its own and become as complex as the people who created it. It’s a solution to any problem. Whether it be function, aesthetics or design simply for designs sake. The articles; By Design, Toothpicks & Logos “Design in Everyday Life” and Understanding Design “175 Reflections on Being a Designer”. All three cover these problems, these struggles, and the writers view on its solutions. Are they right? Nobody knows, that is why this question is the most popular… “what is design?”

You can break it down into a hundred different parts, slice it a thousand different ways and even look at it through a microscope; but it will change from person to person no matter whether the math quite adds up or not. That is both the beauty, and the trouble with posing that infamous question.  

Camera-Bot.February 2013

Found objects, metal.

Camera-Bot.February 2013

Found objects, metal.

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Dieter Rams: Ten principles for good design

Dieter Rams’s “ten principles” reads more like the ten commandments of design it is so briefly mentioned as; an intellectual leap that is not that fare fetched. 

As a whole though, these principles do illustrate quite affectively the qualities of what should be found in a good design. Stressing the importance of quality, function and aesthetics. Rams believes that all aspects of a design are equally as important as the next.