Design Is History is the new site that perpetuates the misapprehension, convincingly diagnosed as harmful by Natalia Ilyin in Chasing the Perfect, that “design history” is a sequence of discrete jumps from A to Z with stops at every letter in between.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of Natalia Ilyin are doomed to repeat them
The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2010.08.22 16:55. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2010/08/22/designishistory/