I have an obsession with information. I love knowing things, as anyone who knows me will tell you. I love the way lawyers and statisticians talk, when they focus on using the perfect word to express their point. The lawyer will say the Plaintiff, having been of sound body and mind, took it upon themselves to intimidate and harass my client with a threat of immediate harm, and therefore committed assault. The statistician will say given all the variables, the motives, and the demographics of people who commit assaults, the Plaintiff did commit this crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
And as much as I love the work lawyers and statisticians do, it’s more so the design of their language that turns me on to those professions. It simply isn’t enough for the lawyer to say he did it, your honor. It isn’t enough because it isn’t designed.
I’ve learned, in the past year or so more than the previous two decades, that what you say isn’t as important as how you say it. My obsession with information made me forget that delivery is important. I’ve always loved design and I’ve always done design. Whether taking things apart to recombine differently or making something from scratch, design has been in my blood as long as I’ve had blood!
Telling someone that they are factually incorrect won’t help you win that argument, even if they are indeed factually incorrect. Telling someone what you think and why, with a pleasant and engaged tone of voice will communicate interest and diversity of opinion, not indifference and superiority (which is what it sounds like to people when you remove tone and focus on information).
I play with words and shapes and pictures and ideas. I create what I call paronyms, which are words that are spelled similarly and may mean very different things or convey one idea. In this case, Desire Design is its own idea. It’s a sentence. We all, lawyers, statisticians, students, boyfriends, men, women, everybody, should crave a little more design in the smaller parts of our lives. It helps us feel like there’s a little bit of order to the chaos in which we inevitably find ourselves.
This is my blog/portfolio/gallery, and it’s called Thou Art. It’s stuff I find interesting or noteworthy. Perhaps reviews of design, and definitely things I’ve made.
Thou Art 