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the silent argument every object makes for how you should live
means The deliberate plan or arrangement behind how something is made, shaped, or intended to work — and the act of devising it.
from From Latin 'designare,' to mark out or designate — built from 'de-' (out) and 'signum' (a mark or sign). The word entered English through French in the late medieval period carrying two intertwined senses that English still hasn't fully untangled: 'design' as a plan or intention, and 'design' as a drawing or pattern. They split off into a sibling, 'designate,' which kept the pure 'mark out' meaning, while 'design' wandered toward the artful side of marking-out. So at its root, every design is literally a sign — something marked deliberately to point at how a thing should be.
- origin
- From Latin designare, to mark out a plan
- invisible win
- Best design goes unnoticed entirely
- dieter rams
- Wrote ten commandments for less, better things
- cost truth
- Fixing a flaw later costs vastly more
- form follows
- Sullivan's phrase came before the skyscraper boom