How to laugh at design failure!

October 6th, 2008 by Gaia Scagnetti

During any design activities a lot of ideas fail and it is very difficult to understand how and why it happened.
The Mister O comics strip by Lewis Trondheim lead me to reflect on the experience of failing and to consider how to learn from it. Using the irony of this language it is possible to step forward the personal involvement and clearly ponder upon these situations we, as designers face every day.
I was so excited about this theme that I suggested it to a student as a subject for a final master thesis. He refused, of course.

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1 Donato Ricci Oct 6, 2008 at 1:46 pm

I wonder why!!
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