Coffee Lids by Louise Harpman

Author:Louise Harpman [Harpman, Louise and Specht, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2018-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

AFTERWORD

GOOD DESIGN IS HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

Louise Harpman

Designers have learned how to look. We see the world in ways that others don’t and take great pleasure in the act of noticing. We have a deep sense of curiosity and enjoy sharing our design finds with other people. We love pointing out the “hidden” arrow in the FedEx logo, in part because we’ve never not seen it. Designers appreciate elegant solutions, independent of scale or complexity, giving equally high praise to mechanical marvels like a reusable rocket booster for travel to and from low Earth orbit, a mile-wide heliostat in the desert, or a safety pin. Designers also enjoy seeing what other people are looking at and experience extraordinary satisfaction in the careful comparison of similar things, like Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photographs of water towers, blast furnaces, and grain elevators, or this collection of coffee lids. Designers reference each other’s work to create a shared sense of visual literacy.

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