Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

permaculture - Re: [permaculture] Good Design, Bad Design, Great Design

permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: permaculture

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Jocelyn Campbell <jocecampbell@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Good Design, Bad Design, Great Design
  • Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:40:37 -0800

Loved this, Jenny! (Though, FYI, Raph's name and website were misspelled.
It's http://www.raphkoster.com.)

Thought you and others might like to know I posted this cool piece out at
permies:
http://www.permies.com/t/11820/art-music-aesthetics/Good-Design-Bad-Design-Great.


In my bouncing around between webpages and e-mails, and especially with
Raph being in the tech industry, I thought this was from my
http://www.digitaleveseattle.org/ list. I posted it out at permies, then
returned my e-mail, and then was pleasantly surprised to see it was from
this list! Thanks again.

Btw, Digital Eve chapters <http://www.digitaleve.org/chapters/> (around the
world) are amazing communities of information and support for any of you
techies out there.

Joyous Holidays back at ya!

Jocelyn


On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Jennifer Nazak <jnazak@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yummy Holiday Greetings All,
>
> Here is a wonderful piece - some food for your (permaculture design)
> thought.
> Merry Christmas (or anything else you celebrate), everyone!
>
> jenny
>
> small art!
> check out my drawings, available for your FREE download and use under
> Creative
> Commons License
> www.jennynazak.com
>
>
>
> Good Design, Bad Design, Great Design
> (By Raph Coster - www.raphcoster.com)
>
> Good design is familiar.
> Bad design is boring.
> Great design is exciting.
>
> Good design embraces human nature.
> Bad design exploits human nature.
> Great design is humane and humanistic.
>
> Good design guides.
> Bad design controls.
> Great design invites.
>
> Good design drives habit.
> Bad design drives frustration.
> Great design drives passion.
>
> Good design teaches.
> Bad design lectures.
> Great design has you teach yourself.
>
> Good design is invisible.
> Bad design calls attention to itself.
> Great design calls attention to what you can do.
>
> Good design celebrates accomplishments.
> Bad design loudly celebrates minor accomplishments.
> Great design enables accomplishments.
>
> Good design does what the user wanted.
> Bad design does what the designer wanted.
> Great design does what the user didn't know they needed.
>
> Good design is at the user's skill level.
> Bad design never asked the user.
> Great design makes everyone think they can use it.
>
> Good design is intentional.
> Bad design is planned (exhaustively, on paper).
> Great design reveals itself while working in the materials.
>
> Good design gets people to pay for utility.
> Bad design gets people to pay as quickly as possible.
> Great design makes money as an incidental consequence.
>
> Good design makes companies.
> Bad design can make plenty of money.
> Great design builds legacies, cultures, and communities.
>
> Good design converses.
> Bad design tells.
> Great design connects people.
>
> Good design executes on the possible.
> Bad design ships on time.
> Great design reaches for the implausible.
>
> Good design has only the parts it needs.
> Bad design is cluttered.
> Great design has fewer parts than seem possible.
>
> Good design doesn't fail.
> Bad design fails a lot.
> Great design fails even more.
>
> I have done good design.
> I have done plenty of bad design.
> I always want to do great design.
>
> _______________________________________________
> permaculture mailing list
> permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subscribe, unsubscribe, change your user configuration or find out more
> about this list here:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture
> Garden Hand Tool Sourcelist and Biointensive Gardening Guide
> http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/documents/gardening-hand-tools.faq
> permaculture forums http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums
> Google command to search the message archives:
> site: lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/permaculture [searchstring]
> Make a donation toward list maintenance:
>
> https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=N8YGXK5XLTPAU
>
>
>


--
Eco Events | QuickBooks | Accounting | 206.779.3707
www.jocelynsevents.com | www.jocelyncampbell.com

~~please think twice before printing this or any e-mail~~




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page