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This is the 48th Blog Off topic we’ve introduced and it’s also the last. Painful though it may be, it’s time to just admit that this bloggery phenomenon has seen its day in the sun and at this point, it’s in the rear view mirror. Gerard and I have been carrying this thing and as [...]

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What is design?

Posted by paul | Posted in Design | Posted on 13-08-2010

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This was the blog project that started everything. At some point in early July, a Twitter conversation about the nature of design led to four very distinct opinions and definitions that couldn’t be condensed into 140 characters.

We took on a question for the ages that day, a question that doesn’t have a correct answer by the way. On the morning when these What is Design posts went live, they spawned a series of conversations in our respective comments sections and on Twitter that went on for days. Clearly, we’d hit a nerve.

So what is design? Four of us from very different backgrounds and lines of work each took a stab at an answer. What do you think? What is design?

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