From the category archives:
If in Doubt, Quote!
A quote from my son’s college adviser
To … teach them that reading books is a lifelong pleasure — and the cheapest vacation they’ll ever take.
—Kirk Davis Swinehart, on teaching history at Wesleyan.
Exactly the sort of fellow I want teaching my kid. And I can’t wait to read his book…
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Cheese Monkeys
Not at all the same thing as “thought foxes“, but an intriguing moniker nonetheless.
I am reading The Cheese Monkeys, by Chip Kidd, basically at the behest of Jeffrey Zeldman, who unfailingly gives good suggestions on what to read (and what to see, and to link to).
I found the ending disappointing, but the observations on design and design-school instruction are priceless.
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To Scale
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context—a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
—Eliel Saarinen,
quoted by his son Eero,
in Time magazine, June 2, 1977
