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Archive for February, 2006

Small Things Considered (Henry Petroski)

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Petroski is at his best when he brings forth the virtues of artefacts like the plastic “thing” that keep a pizza box top from touching the pizza, or the grocer’s brown paper bag. He considers that everything is designing, inverting the modernist tendency of the Design Methods people to that designing is decision making / […]

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