Making
A continued effort to unlock the jargon of the architectural world; establishing a more closely related plane of reference. Nearly.
Chapter Two
How is design defined? Some assume they know what the word means and how to achieve it. But how do we know what it is? Is it an action or a thing? Is it a time or a style? Is it a person or an organization? And why do we design?
The following is a series of definitions referred to and found on the Internet for the term “design”. Identified here for purposes of illustration. The wide spectrum of definitions is notable.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design
Design Usually considered in the context of applied arts, engineering, architecture, and other creative endeavors, is used both as a noun and a verb. As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and developing a plan for a product, structure, system, or component. As a noun, "a design" is used for either the final (solution) plan (e.g. proposal, drawing, model, description) or the result of implementing that plan (e.g. object produced, result of the process).
More recently, processes (in general) have also been treated as products of design, giving new meaning to the term "process design".
Designing normally requires a designer to consider the aesthetic, functional, and other aspects of an object or a process, which usually requires considerable research, thought, modeling, interactive adjustment, and re-design.
A continued effort to unlock the jargon of the architectural world; establishing a more closely related plane of reference. Nearly.
Chapter Two
How is design defined? Some assume they know what the word means and how to achieve it. But how do we know what it is? Is it an action or a thing? Is it a time or a style? Is it a person or an organization? And why do we design?
The following is a series of definitions referred to and found on the Internet for the term “design”. Identified here for purposes of illustration. The wide spectrum of definitions is notable.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design
Design Usually considered in the context of applied arts, engineering, architecture, and other creative endeavors, is used both as a noun and a verb. As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and developing a plan for a product, structure, system, or component. As a noun, "a design" is used for either the final (solution) plan (e.g. proposal, drawing, model, description) or the result of implementing that plan (e.g. object produced, result of the process).
More recently, processes (in general) have also been treated as products of design, giving new meaning to the term "process design".
Designing normally requires a designer to consider the aesthetic, functional, and other aspects of an object or a process, which usually requires considerable research, thought, modeling, interactive adjustment, and re-design.
Design is:
A decorative or artistic work
A deliberate ordering of components
The creation of something in the mind
A plan, organization, or arrangement of elements in a work of art
To plan and fashion the form and structure of an object or work of art
A process to find and describe a way to implement the system's requirements
Both the process and the result of structuring the elements of visual form; composition
A set of experimental runs, which allows you to fit a particular model, and estimate your desired effects
Qualitative analysis to identify categories of error reported during a randomized controlled trial of computer and paper reporting methods
A framework or scheme of construction on which artists base the nature of their total work. In a broader sense, design may be considered synonymous with the term "form"
An activity during which decisions are made about the geographic placement of and interaction between natural resources (e.g., topography, vegetation) and built elements (e.g., buildings, roads) in a specific area
A set of fields for problem-solving that uses user-centric approaches to understand user needs (as well as business, economic, environmental, social, and other requirements) to create successful solutions that solve real problems
Quotes:
"Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy."
Erik Adigard
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau
"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
Miguel de Cervantes
"Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood."
Ivan Chermayeff
"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute."
Gil Stern
"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need."
Charles Eames
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