{"id":91,"date":"2008-01-27T22:24:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T05:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2008-02-03T15:16:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T22:16:30","slug":"what-is-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"What is design?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From various notable personalities in the design world, collected altogether&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In essence, design offers a pathway for bringing theory&#8211;ideas bout the nature of the world and how we should live our lives&#8211;into closer relationship with practical action and the creation of diverse kinds of products and experiences.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8212; R. Buchanan,<em> Design and the New Rhetoric<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Design is the art of causing change to occur in accordance with taste and intent&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8212; Clement Mok, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clementmok.com\/musings\/detail.asp?ItemID=12\">Time for a Change<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that&#8217;s why it is so complicated.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8212; Paul Rand<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8212; Charles Eames<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Steve Jobs<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8212; Paul Rand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From various notable personalities in the design world, collected altogether&#8230; &#8220;In essence, design offers a pathway for bringing theory&#8211;ideas bout the nature of the world and how we should live our lives&#8211;into closer relationship with practical action and the creation of diverse kinds of products and experiences.&#8221; &#8212; R. Buchanan, Design and the New Rhetoric &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=91\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is design?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","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\/91","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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}