{"id":212,"date":"2009-04-14T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T23:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2009-04-14T17:03:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T00:03:55","slug":"design-definitions-and-essences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"The essences of Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I created this a little while back, as a <a href=\"http:\/\/udanium.com\/misc\/what_is_design.pdf\">short poster<\/a> to distribute online. Yet another personal attempt to articulate succinctly the wide range of definitions and purposes of Design as a compact yet visually tasteful statement. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the key points:<\/p>\n<p>** Design is a cultural, aesthetic, humanistic endeavor<br \/>\n** It&#8217;s a mode of inquiry and discourse<br \/>\n** It&#8217;s a strategic, tactical, and conceptual activity<br \/>\n** Politics is at the heart of design, creating change<br \/>\n** And it&#8217;s a powerful force for humanity<\/p>\n<p>And of course all of this is subject to ongoing interpretation and evolving perspectives :-) But I believe it&#8217;s a good start&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/udanium.com\/misc\/what_is_design.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/design-def.png\" alt=\"design_def.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><em>Click the image to download the PDF<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I created this a little while back, as a short poster to distribute online. Yet another personal attempt to articulate succinctly the wide range of definitions and purposes of Design as a compact yet visually tasteful statement. Some of the key points: ** Design is a cultural, aesthetic, humanistic endeavor ** It&#8217;s a mode of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=212\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The essences of Design&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}