The talent of mr fox E-Book

Sandro Cesaro

• Herausgeber: Sandro Cesaro
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Essay on the philosophy of design. Reading this essay will help you get coherent and clear ideas in planning the various phases of a design. Which questions should you pose to yourself? What should the most important thing be in each different phase? This book supports you with suggestions and philosophical reflection, when you deal with design problems.

Leseprobe

PREFACE

No journey begins without a first step, nor does it end without the last one.

We’ve all gone through it, in some occasion: without a deadline to respect, a last minute or an unsustainable pressure we don’t move from the state of incompleteness.

I find this to be true, as for many kinds of work, for this book. It has lied for years only partly finished, until the cruel necessity to get something done pushed me to gather, revise, re-write and order the design philosophy material I had accumulated.

And to think that the project of this book has existed for many years...

But I didn’t like the form, I didn’t believe in the content all down the line, I feared the judgement of editors and readers...

To tell the truth I sent a scarcely readable draft to to a couple of editors.

From one I received no answer, from the other I received an estimate for an edition at my expenses.

I didn’t carry the idea out, as I knew very well I needed a good work of proofreading and editing to be done.

So I resorted to “make a friend read it”, thus involving Giulio Mozzi.

That kindly read it.

He advised me to structure the text, to use examples, to simplify the prose. He gave me a chapter template, that I later elaborated.

When I got to a good point, I lost enthusiasm, The examples grew weak, the good ideas rarefied, the time dedicated to the work scarce.

I realized I was not the first to write a manual on design (oh, the ego of those who write without having read well before..) and I realized that, actually, I didn’t like the instruction-like style I’d used.

So I decided for a philosophical style and I understood that the “additional quality” of the work was in the theme: it talks about the philosophy of design, more than design techniques.

I hope you like it.

I hope it gives you ideas.

Sandro

THE JEWISH CURRENT TETRALOGY

I don’t search – I don’t find, I search – I don’t find,

I search – I find, I don’t search – I find

Beautiful,powerful, synthetic. It is the presentation of the right base of what I meant to write in this design philosophy book. It needs some explaining.

I DON’T SEARCH – I DON’T FIND.

Quite obvious.. I find the situation, reality, the world I am in, to be fine as they are. Thus I search for nothing more. A common situation for many people, pleasant, monotonous, appeasing.

I SEARCH – I DON’T FIND.

Something moves, not outside me, but inside. I search because I do not possess, because I don’t like the common situation, it doesn’t appease me any more. I am no longer willing to tolerate the negative aspects of my living that seemed inescapable, indisputable. I accepted them without even questioning them. Now I SEARCH, I ask, but find no answers, I have no projects.

I SEARCH – I FIND.

Sometimes, efforts are rewarded... My research finds a track, an idea, a project, a solution to a problem, something new or better or hidden or invisible. All I had to do was search and toil, I did so and I found.

I DON’T SEARCH, I FIND.

The unexpected, the intuition, the creation. I was searching for something else, maybe, or I’d gave up searching for weariness, or just when I think it is not worth thinking of anything new, I find myself seized by a thought, an idea, a direction for my quest. Or a symphony, a painting, a poem, a sculpture.

Or a scientific patent, the cure for a disease, the destination of a journey.

Not to search and to find is the prize to the open-minded, to those that – as the ancient philosophers – can feel wonder and awe.

It is the prize of those who don’t fit with the commonly accepted situation, that suffer and struggle.

It emerges from effort and thoroughness, from not being contented; or from the sudden encounter with someone or something new, different, seeking.

Watch out!! Heraclitus warns not to expect miracles of the sort without suffering, as..

“Seekers after gold dig up much earth and find little”.

CURIOSITY

Many times, I watched a flock of sheep on their way or grazing, as a Sheppard lives and works close to my home. Well, there are curious and individualistic sheep, that get away from the herd to taste the grass beyond the ditch.

Then again there must be, otherwise they would never become lost (the lost sheep having become a universal concept).

They are pushed by curiosity, they are held back in the flock by fear and the guard dog.

The sheep in which curiosity overcomes are not all black, I personally saw two white ones trying to flee.

The Sheppard didn’t like this, he has to think of the caciotte not about the freedom of the animals. It only took a whistle and a robust black dog, of a rough and rural beauty, barked, delicately bit a hock, and the fugitives went back to the herd, in both cases.

A person’s world-view is like a flock of ideas, that grow, grazing on information and stimulation.

The Sheppard of economic and social security, the dog of necessity and of the fear of mistakes keep the herd together and lead it to fields of certain information, to produce caciotte of work, provoloni(1) of social integration, secure life projects, opinions in the norm, the warm wool of tranquillising talk.

Yet...

Those who are afraid to change also, pasture their ideas in the global world of information, their taste in exotic dinners, their sense of hearing in foreign music... and they don’t feel endangered by this.