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Opinions
MIT Office of Publications Legacy
The authorship of many documents designed by the staff of the MIT Office of Publication have never been verified or corrected. So one will find resumes by Muriel, Jackie and Ralph that are erroneous. The reason for this is that they were copied over and over again by many publications who never checked in with […]
More Thoughts on MIT
I would question the scholarship. This must have been concocted by a “design historian,” but not by a researcher or scholar trained in the discipline of art history. From my vantage point, there is no way that Muriel Cooper would have been in the position of appointing/hiring Jackie Casey. I agree that Muriel was able […]
1970’s, Harvard Business Review, Edward Tufte
In the early 1970s, the editors of the Harvard Business Review, received a critical letter from Edward Tufte, scolding its design director – me – as basically incompetent in designing intelligent diagrams for the journal’s audience. He introduced himself as an expert and included his book as example of good design. It was the first […]
Notes on Personal Bias
Simplicity vs. Complexity Singularity vs. Plurality When a teacher is given the opportunity to assess the work of students, who are spending time and energy defining their own philosophical positions, I consider it only fair that he is asked to provide a statement so that they can recognize in his presentations and critiques his framework […]
Myths + Realities
It is time for design historians worth their salt, to untangle the amazing myths that obscure a very simple reality, behind which many American designers have been hiding, to shield themselves from exposure to something that is not as glamorous as has been portrayed by their professional design media. For instance, historians have to set […]