Design is no accident

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

Emil Ruder
Typography

See entry about Emil Ruder in German Wikipedia

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Comment by Euan » 27 March 2005 9:22 pm

Which rather begs the question ….. is that a good or a bad thing?

Trackback by The Obvious? » 27 March 2005 9:25 pm

Make your mind up time …

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Comment by Nic Price » 27 March 2005 10:42 pm

Euan, I agree with your question :-)

I liked this quote because it really got me thinking.

On the whole for me, design which does not cater for serendipity is bad news.

Unless of course you’re an airline pilot trying to land a 747!

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