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9. Patterns and Anti-patterns

Louis Davidson1  
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Antioch, TN, USA
 

A designer has a duty to create timeless design. To be timeless you have to think really far into the future, not next year, not in two years but in 20 years minimum.

—Philippe Starck, Designer, Architect

There is an old saying that you shouldn’t try to reinvent the wheel, and honestly, in essence it is a very good saying. But with all such sayings, a modicum of common sense is required for its application. If everyone down through history took the saying literally, your car would have wheels made out of the trunk of a tree (which the MythBusters ...

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