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The word occurs in contexts associated with cunning and deceit. A designer is a cunning plotter laying his traps… The word design has come to occupy the position it has in contemporary discourse through our awareness that being a human being is a design against nature.
Flusser
1.b. ‘A scheme formed to the detriment of another’ (J.); a plan or purpose of attack upon or on.
...CIBBER Careless Husb. II. i, To be in love, now, is only to have a design upon a woman, a modish way of declaring war against her virtue. 1848 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. I. 598 It was thought necessary to relinquish the design on Bristol. 1858 LYTTON What Will he do? I. i, He had no design on your pocket.
ex Oxford English Dictionary
The word drawing has two meanings. To draw an object is to represent it with pen-strokes, patches of light and shadow. To draw a scene, a building, a group is to express one’s thought through these objects. That is why our forefathers wrote dessein, and this intelligent spelling made it clear that all drawing is a design, plan, or project of the mind.
Zuccaro, quoted in Roque
the work —
Read Flusser, and consider the definitions of "design" in the OED, in light of our experience and our sense of the profession.
Develop five emblematic juxtapositions on the word/idea "design" : five entries / citations for design (noun or verb), in conjunction with images provided by you. Images may be entirely original, or photographs of instances of design out there, or single or collaged images, stolen wholesale or in part (in true emblematic fashion).
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sources / references
- Oxford English Dictionary entries for "design" (noun and verb).
- Vilém Flusser (1920-1991), "About the Word Design," in The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design (1999)
- Federigo Zuccaro (1542-1609), from The Idea of Sculptors, Painters and Architects (1607), in Elizabeth Gilmore Holt, A Documentary History of Art – Volume II – Michelangelo and the Mannerists, The Baroque and the Eighteenth Century (1958): 87-92
- Georges Roque, passages from "Writing/Drawing/Color," in Yale French Studies 84 (1994): 43, 52-55
Introduction to emblems, and links to more thorough treatments, here. See for example :
- Wither, George. A collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, Quickened with metricall illustrations, both Morall and divine: And Disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation. / By George Wither. The first-fourth booke. London, Printed by A.M. for Henry Taunton, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunflanes, 1635.
scan - Achille Bocchi (1488-1562). Symbolicarum quaestionum. Bologna, 1574
scan - Cesare Ripa. Iconologia; or, Moral Emblems, by Caesar Ripa, Pierce Tempest., 1709
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