The Design Mind
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The Design Mind is an encompassing look into Deep Design and the human psychology surrounding it. Our modern obsession with making things stems from our ancient past and of figuring things out to solve problems. This is a journey within that history as we look for the origins of design and discover where it places us in the present, both literally and figuratively. We look for examples in building our understanding of the topic and its implications on our own man-made story. There is as well an integration of sister concepts such as art & architecture in an attempt to further reveal the root of the human mind in design. Where did this design stuff all get started? There are several integral questions seeking answers including 'why do humans design things?' and 'what kind of archaeological proofs do we have about our design roots?'.
This is a factual account of how we got to where we are today, a mix of modern and historical topics with the goal of seeing things a certain way, in a certain light. Making an approach to Deep Design as a popular topic this book has blended many ideas to come out with something enthusiastic, an element that will excite readers. Anyone who finds they are a lover of art, architecture, design or anthropology will enjoy this piece of well researched literature.
Come along for a journey that will open your mind to an idea about ourselves and about how we love making things.
Michael Gronnerud
To see more on the topic visit my website: www.deepdesigndomain.com
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The Design Mind - Michael Gronnerud
Not knowing something, is what makes something worth knowing…which makes it worth figuring out…which is where we come in…humans….that's rather what we do, it’s rather our style. Design is about the aggregate of some things….ideas & object's functionality….and it is as well a style, where we together get to form a story about ourselves. From this we get meaning. This also gives us balance, for humans are nothing if not what we make with our hands our emotions and our minds. This gives us both place and purpose in this world, and it certainly gets our collective attention. Upon this after much specialization comes a certain sophistication. This has been demonstrated to become infectious, with our interpretations and with its impressions. Invention is our very own interpretation of what nature has given us to work with and of what we’ve made with it says volumes…about ourselves.
The Design Mind
Copyright © 2015 by Michael Gronnerud
First Edition – December 2015
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Design Mind
Preface – A little something known as Deep Design
Introduction – The humble beginnings
Chapter One--It All Began by a Lake
Chapter Two--The Path of the Projection Process
Chapter Three--Design & Paradigm
Chapter Four--Tattoos in the Mind
Chapter Five--Architecture Versus Design
Chapter Six--The Personalization of Everything
Chapter Seven--Domain Alteration
Chapter Eight--The Psychological Gates
Chapter Nine--A Definition of Appreciation
Chapter Ten--The Deep Design Perspective
Chapter Eleven--Projectile Process of Art
Chapter Twelve--The Purpose of Design is...
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Preface –
A little something known as Deep Design
When we get into the topic of people we tend to have ideas, about what we are, where we are coming from and where is it that we want to go. Within the conversation it is seemingly impossible to get very far in without broaching the ever popular topic of design.
Within ourselves exists much mystery and with a strong sense of self and an impression of potential we gift ourselves into the creative pursuits that are the arts. Along-side these styles of representation and outlets of self-awareness comes another brash endeavor, that of tool making. You have it separate, as if in the hand different aspects of a cube, one expressive to the greatest potential and the other the highway to deliver us to that expression. The means to make our way through a task there has always been the tool kit. And without our deep roots in carving stone there would be still no foundation to lay all of our technology and creativity upon. This is our basis of all that is Deep Design. How did we get here and where in our ancestors minds did the first bolts of light come striking forth?
These are in fact monster sized questions, in all practicality we will never know the full truth, but through collective analogy and observation of bits left over from our ancient selves we can piece together a very tangible likelihood of how it all gradually unfolded. There is a bread crumb trail there if we have the will to follow it into our own past, and into ourselves. This is the basis of the creative mind that has always been present.
Why is it that we want to design in the first place? Is it that there really can be some sort of positional answer? What is it in us that leads us to visualize in the first place, and what spry motivation is priming us to create things with our hands? This is a curiosity indeed and it is also a mirror onto our very selves.
For how long has this nature taken residence within us? Is it purely artistic for the sake of being fancy or expressive, or is it something stirring deeper? Has it boiled up within us only in the last several centuries, or millennia, or far longer, how will we ever find out? Can time even be part of the equation, or is it more along the lines of this is being human at any point in time? Is this state one that is carnal, or innate, or emotionally charged and thereby attached to whatever it is just to be human? With these questions just what exactly are we stumbling onto, how big are the perimeters of these questions?
This book explores deeper into the foundations of design and shows some of the linkages within our old selves along with the modern aspects of how we live with and currently think about design. It is something so absolutely central to our existence, as if it is a key to what problems are and the path we choose to take to gain solutions. Taking a journey well across the border of the obvious and reflecting back something of ourselves is just what Deep Design attempts to do, to lay out and examine what we know and what lines can be drawn where we consider design as part of our lives. Just as the stirring within us makes us curious, it also leads us into making things that leave us just as curious, it is central to the human condition.
The seemingly simple act of shaping an item from raw resource is still different from what can be called a design school or a variant. Designers, have to be knowledgeable of just how creative results fit into a larger trend, these modern days we are aware of the types of purposes that lay within their work and all too aware of how tools and technologies shape our lives, even when they are invisible. We look towards something more subtle, it is the raw craft that is primary to this pursuit. An item with function but without bias of methods, it is a pure item which we can devise or distill out of thin air. Just as the first fishing net or protective glove would have been devised, in such distant times there was an urge to create them.
Where can we begin, where can we have an initial witnessing of all the later cohesion? When will we first see it in the human time line, an almost abstract concept here but one that rests solidly in the physical world? Items fitting into groups or into styles would tend to grasp this initial concept. This entails much of the modern definition of design as it likely exists for most of us, it represents the kernel of basis to all the wonderful stuff we now surround ourselves in and fill our homes with.
Art, sculpture, craft, design & architecture, these will all seem archetypes, like containers, separating all the beginnings and growth of ideas, to reveal beginnings. These will become real and tangible as the tree of ideas seems to grow out of design in general.
All good paths must start with a good question, all fascination must begin with an unknown, this is what characterizes first steps.
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Introduction –
The humble beginnings
Gaining meaning from something usually means piling a large amount of ourselves into its pursuit. Usually by putting a lot of time into that something then that meaning is manually brought to light. Endlessly investing into discovery, that of invention, that of bringing it along