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For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails

Bruce Mau

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Bruce Mau
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 25
Designer
Graphic Designer
Scenographer
city of Sudbury
Design
Fails
Invisible
Failing

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Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.
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When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters.
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Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.
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Most of the time, we live our lives within these invisible systems, blissfully unaware of the artificial life, the intensely designed infrastructures that support them.
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What is the focus of the new image infrastructure? Attention. It's all designed for capturing, tracking, quantifying, manipulating, holding, buying, selling and controlling attention.
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The word ‘studio’ is derives from ‘study’. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. It’s to know them after we do it.
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No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.
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I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.
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Massive Change is not about the world of design it's about the design of the world.
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Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.
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To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while.
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Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.
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Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.
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