{"id":107,"date":"2010-10-01T08:58:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T12:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/?p=107"},"modified":"2010-10-01T09:02:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:02:37","slug":"isms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/2010\/10\/01\/isms\/","title":{"rendered":"ISMs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Guyser<\/a> on a linked in forum got me thinking about ISMs <\/a>like modernism and minimialism…<\/p>\n

ISMs are about absolutes, a belief in a set of principles to guide how you see the world. As an example in the design world maybe there’s something like: consultancyism. A belief that there are set of formulaic processes that can solve ANY problem (i.e. research > prototype > design > release). This gospel-of-process by many design consultancies preaches that it can be applied to design anything and that’s easy on the ears for risk-adverse business-minds. A repeatable process makes them feel safe, comforted in their past. But like all ISMs, it puts the blinders on and limits our ability to come up with a real solution. If we all believed the gospel of modernism and minimalism, we’d live in a world of smooth black bricks Apple-pod-a-la-mode-style. Over simplification perhaps, but any mass-uni-directional philosophy would lead to a rather sterile world indeed. (Which is why there’s a movement away from it in the design community. London Design Week is showcasing quite a bit of biological forms this year. Lots of anti-smooth, anti-rounded-edge-rectangle designs, regressing back to super-ancientism perhaps (nature) .)<\/p>\n

The rejection of the ISMs with the punk attitude is beneficial to the designer. The Anti. By not being “for” anything, it allows freedom and maximum flexibility to seek out a solution from any angle. The design itself could have a point of view, as punk does, but still not subscribe to any ISMs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Guyser on a linked in forum got me thinking about ISMs like modernism and minimialism… ISMs are about absolutes, a belief in a set of principles to guide how you see the world. As an example in the design world maybe there’s something like: consultancyism. A belief that there are set of formulaic processes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}