Research 07 – quotes

13Jun07

“Maps are interfaces between knowledge and experience. Always more than descriptions, they represent what we usually experience as a series of impressions in the form of an image seen from an extracorporeal viewpoint, that of shared knowledge.”
Dirk Van Weelden, book Else/Where: New cartographies of networks and territories, p 26
“The old geography of countries and coast [...]

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17Feb07

Paul Rand’s answer on ‘What is design?’
“Design is the method of putting form and content together.
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.”
“Keeping it simple.”
Maeda @ Media, John Maeda

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18Jan07

“Art is primarily a question of form, not of content.”
Paul Rand
“Affirming the presence of the historical in the condition of the present”
Walter Benjamin
“There are more homepages than people in the world”
www.spacemakerpress.com (landforum)

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