"The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so."

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Source : Norman Potter (2002). “What Is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages”, Hyphen Press

Norman Potter

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“Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.”
“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”
“I don't want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.”
“Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.”
“If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.”
“... And we talk it out. Lately, I've had Roy Thomas come in, and he sits and makes notes while we discuss it. Then he types them up, which gives us a written synopsis. Originally - I have a little tape recorder - I had tried taping it, but then I found no one on staff has time to listen to the tape again later. But this way he makes notes, types it quickly, I get a carbon, the artist gets a carbon ... so we don't have to worry that we'll forget what we've said.”
“Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.”
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

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