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Martin Buber on Education
"The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda...The tempo of propaganda is feverish, nervous. It is the pace of television and radio.... Whereas education goes at a slow pace. It is the pace of teachers talking with their students. It is the pace of a man reading by himself in a room. It cannot be hurried or speeded up and remain education."
I've posted this excellent thought on my blog at fraterdeus.com
It seems an appropriate reminder of the challenges for designers: to remain committed to education rather than propaganda. It is exceedingly difficult to be a professional symbolic worker without participating in propaganda, whether political or economic.
How can we begin to exercise our powers of understanding and presentation in favor of education, that is, as Buber said: Education means teaching people to see the reality around them, to understand it for themselves.
Perhaps Edward Tufte is in this camp. His work on decoding visual presentation provides perceptive and analytical tools which allow the viewer to uncover hidden distortions and agendas in the "propaganda" of the statistician, the advertiser, the economist, the politician.
Robert Bringhurst on Type Design
Robert Bringhurst is the author of "The Elements of Typographic Style" who brings the literate eye of a highly respected poet to bear on the presentation of language.
The most powerful type and design tools in the world are the pencil and the pen, which have been pretty accessible and affordable for quite a while. Some people, it is true, are so enchanted by the computer that they now can’t draw or write by hand, just as some are so enchanted by the car that they’re incapable of walking. And a few people are vandals, who will use whatever tools they have to wreck what other people do. But the tools aren’t to blame for these defects of character
http://www.typebooks.org/i-r_bringhurst.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Bringhurst/
Design a CSS Theme
We're going to try to set up a theme development section, where anyone who wants to try their hand can re-theme dezineCafe.