How
to ruin a great design
This article talks about how something
already existing, something great, can be tuned into something bad. I like the
way it defines what a bad design is. It says it comes in many forms and it identifies
it as something “unsafe.
Things that don’t work properly, or are unnecessarily complicated. Things that
are ethically or environmentally unsound.” This, of course, means that a
design doesn’t just look pretty but I also needs to be functional. It goes on
saying that committing a crime against design is to “deprive us of the joy of
great design, by wrecking or replacing it.” This article also states that the traffic
signs of London have been redesign for the worst. These signs are inconsistent
hurts the eye and complicated. On the other hand, some are better than before.
Also,
the person who approves the traffic sign to be used on the roads need to pay
more attention. The author says that when this things (bad design, functionality)
slip without being unrecognized by whoever takes charge of an intelligently
designed system, is the worst. It also gives other examples like the redesign logo
of UPS, Citroën, and the elegant Egg and Series 7 chairs, designed in the 1950s
by the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen. They turned those classic beauties into “kitschy
new forms that mock the originals”.
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