Matt Jones: Where’s the poetry?
Matt Jones: “One of the visual couplets [Jan] Kaplicky [of Future Systems] uses to illustrate his philosophy contrasts a moody, uplit black & white photo [of] Richard Meier […] very much posed as Randian hero [...] against [a photo of] the 200+ strong design team of the Boeing 777, waving gleefully in a carpark. “Which is the real designer” he asks provocatively. He goes on to contend that the Boeing team dealt with a much more complex problem domain, rapidly changing technology and timescales and created an object of advanced functionality and efficientcy and yet breathtaking beauty. [–––] Do we have the digital equivalent of a Boeing 777 out there?” (Via Dan Hill.)