
Observed whilst perusing the very nicely designed web site of an eminent US design school1 was the following statement:
"Design was never quite the same after Gutenberg invented movable type."
Oops. Sorry to be a stickler for detail, but this is incorrect and symptomatic of a very Western-centric worldview...
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by Piet Westendorp & Paul Mijksenaar
New York: Joost Elffers Books, 1999.
Need to know how to: a) throw a boomerang? b) tie a sari? c) tie a bow-tie whilst looking in a mirror? d) take a contraceptive pill whilst naked? or e) examine the details of forty different air safety cards?
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