Posts Tagged ‘order’

God does not throw dices

Magazine -> #7 Chaos

To Greek philosophers the concepts of “world” and “order” were synonymous. To our contemporaries the world is more akin to chaos. Art has sought order in disorder, disorder in order, sometimes managing to find a balance between the two. By Angela Vettese, art reviewer and critic. Albert Einstein’s contention was that God doesn’t thro...

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The twenty senses

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

Design starts with sensation. The senses, both visceral and intuitive, play a major role in the process of making a designed environment. Whether the result is order or chaos, the designer must think and feel using every part of the mind and body. Graphic design is not about following templates or formats (though so much of it is), rather it’s mo...

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Thank goodness for complexity!

Magazine -> #7 Chaos

Francesco Di Lauro talks with  Ernesto Illy Order is good, disorder bad. But is that really how things stand? Ernesto Illy, president of illycaffè, a firm universally acknowledged has having sired 4 of the 7 most important inventions in the sector over the last 100 years, reconsiders the issue and puts forth an alternative point of view on t...

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PPP, the recipe for happyness

Magazine -> #7 Chaos

There’s a lot of talk nowadays about the sustainability of corporate enterprise. Corporations operate in a natural context. They bring about changes in the environment and upset the natural balance, while trying to impose their own. What kind of governance can there be for this sort of activity? Corporations live off nature. It’s essential tha...

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    Ai Wei Wei

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