Virginia Postrel
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"The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World would be an excellent addition to a high school curriculum, it has something for everyone: mathematicians, inventors, scientists, botanists, historians, artists, designers, and fashion. As an ed"
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“At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.”
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“Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.”
― The Substance of Style
― The Substance of Style
“Functionality still matters, of course. But competition has pushed quality so high and prices so low that many manufacturers can no longer distinguish themselves with price and performance, as traditionally defined. In a crowded marketplace, aesthetics is often the only way to make a product stand out.”
― The Substance of Style
― The Substance of Style