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Banging Things into Shape

Norbert Bolz’s “design manifesto for the 21st century”, bang design makes a good companion read for Sterling’s Shaping Things. Bolz writes in reaction to developments similar to those Sterling picks up: The future of the thing in the age of its digital taggability1, and the “body in the age of its technical reproductability” (p. 135).
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What you want (to be)

At first I thought, Paul Arden’s It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be was your average load of motivational mumbo-jumbo. One reason for this may be the misleading German title, which translates exactly to It’s not who you are, but who you want to be, putting the whole thing [...]

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Shaping Things

I think I first read about Shaping Things on Peter Merholze’s blog. And at any rate, the prospect of reading Bruce Sterling (whose fiction writing I appreciate) on (product) design was quite appealing. However, I guess I need to adopt a different strategy if I hope to get anyone to click through my Amazon links [...]

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