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Visualizing learning, creativity & 
 design through type & image Punya Mishra www.punyamishra.com
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Wisdom begins in wonder - Socrates
SIMPLICITY IS about subtracting the obvious and adding the
MEANINGFUL John Maeda
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o o n b dy cares
I want to make beautiful
things, even if
Saul Bass
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There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply
take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they
d n a w e n e mak curious combinations. Mark Twain @ punyamishra
I AM NOT YET WHAT I AM
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To
light a candle
is to cast a shadow Ursula Le Guin
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If you think
good design is
expensive,
you should
look at
. n g i s e d d a b f o t s o c e th – Ralf Speth @ punyamishra
ART DESIGN John Maeda
is a QUESTION is a SOLUTION
to a PROBLEM
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THE SECRET IS TO
GANG UP ON EACH OTHER THE PROBLEM, RATHER THAN EACH
THOMOS STALLKAMP
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You don’t think your way to creative work. You
WORK YOUR WAY George Nelson
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to creative thinking
FACTS
are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot
ALTER the state of facts and
EVIDENCE John Adams
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INVENTION IS the mother of
NECESSITY
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TO SEE IS A STRUGGLE WHAT IS IN FRONT OF ONE’S NOSE CONSTANT
George Orwell
designers make things complexity & uncertainty All
out of the materials of a situation under conditions of
Donald Schon
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it
Buckminster Fuller
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t
Mos people die would rather
than think, in fact they do
Think Bertrand Russell
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DATA INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE WISDOM FORESIGHT
is not
is not
is not
is not
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Every child is an artist.
THE PROBLEM IS HOW to remain an artist once WE GROW UP. Pablo Picasso
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ART IS LITERACY
OF THE HEART ELLIOT W. EISNER
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our language limits our cognition The limits of
do not define the of
Elliot W. Eisner
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THE ARTS TEACH
children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have
MORE
than one answer Elliot W. Eisner
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CON IS ON VERSATION
A CATALYST FOR INNOVATI
John Seely Brown
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DESIGN funny
is a
how it works
But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really
word. Some people think design means how it looks.
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DESIGN IS POETRY ‌much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to
edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify,
to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and
Paul Rand
perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into‌
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The arts help children disclose poetic capacities learn to say what cannot be said.
When children are invited to
what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their
Ell
io
tW .E
isn
er
the job o d l il w t a th s rd o w e to find th
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THE ARTIFICIAL WORLD IS centered precisely on this interface between the inner and outer environments; it is CONCERNED WITH ATTAINING GOALS by adapting the former to the latter
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Every
NEW PATTERN NEW IDEAS
spot of pigment laid on the canvas creates some kind of
that provides a continuing source of
to the painter. The painting process is a process of cyclical interaction between painter and canvas in which current goals lead to new applications of paint, while the gradually changing pattern suggests a
NEW GOAL Herbert Simon
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in
SEEKING NEW EYES new landscapes, but in having
Marcel Proust
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Photo Š Klaus Schulmann on Flickr
MY DESTINATION IS NO LONGER A PLACE, RATHER
A NEW WAY
OF SEEING Marcel Proust
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In order to understand the phenomena surrounding a new technology, we must open the question of
Dthe interaction E S I between GN UNDERSTANDING &CREATION Terry Winograd & Fernando Flores @ punyamishra
As with most media from which things are built, whether the thing is a cathedral, a bacterium, a sonnet, a figure or a word processor,
ARCHITECTURE
DOMINATES
MATERIAL To understand clay is not 
 to understand the pot. What a pot is all about can be appreciated better by understanding the creators and users of the pot and their need both to inform the material with their meaning and to abstract meaning from the form
Alan Kay
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Whoever teaches
&
LEARNS TEACHING in the act of
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whoever learns
TEACHES LEARNING in the act of
DO THE BEST YOU
CAN YOU DO BETTER UNTIL
KNOW BETTER. THEN WHEN YOU KNOW BETTER,
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Maya Angelou
IF YOU CAN’T
IMAGINE E IT R W TO T U O B A E R A U O Y T A H W ANYONE LINKING TO
DON’T WRITE IT
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QUESTION THE ANSWER NEVER ASK A
TO WHICH YOU KNOW
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You don’t know what you know until you
BUILD
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You don’t
KNOW WHAT YOU BUILD you know until
something!
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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow T. S. Eliot
WHEN?
HOW?
WHERE?
WHAT?
WH0?
WHY?
A FACT IS not something to remember but rather
A CONTESTABLE CLAIM @ punyamishra
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The proper study of mankind is the science of design - Herbert Simon
I do not envy
PEOPLE ARE OBVIOUSLY WRONG
who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they
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ee
cum
min gs
l u f i t u a e b e r o m a s k s a o h w r e w s n a the beautiful
creation play loves The
of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the
instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it
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Carl Jung
PROBLEMS ATTACK BACK worthy of
prove their worth by hitting
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Piet Hein
The goal of
A DESIGNER IS INVISIBLE visible’ Hillman Curtis
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to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize, and glean insights that enable him or her to ‘make the
A USER IS A JOKE.
interface
like
If you have to explain it, it’s not that good. Martin LeBlanc
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THE THE THE details are not
details. They make
es m a es E
l Char
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d e s i g n
WE ARE
BUT A HABIT Aristotle
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what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act,
The work you do while you
PROCRASTINATE
LIFE
is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your
Jessica Hische
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LEAVE IT BETTER than you found it
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Robert Baden-Powell
Where do new ideas come from?
CREATIVITY UNLIKELY The answer is simple:
comes from
juxtapositions
Nicholas Negroponte
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LOVE The test of a vocation is the
of the
RY
it involves.
Logan Pearsall Smith
DESIGN IS
c0
L+
… so simple. That’s why it’s so …
P
M
i CA
Paul Rand
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+
= Beauty
Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions 

Nicholas Negroponte
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ONLY THE ABSURD ACHIEVE those who attempt
the impossible M.C. Escher
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The Buddha resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of the mountain, or in the petals of a flower Robert M. Pirsig
THE BUDDHA IN THE DIGITAL
RESIDES QUITE AS COMFORTABLY CIRCUITS OF A
COMPUTER OR THE GEARS OF A CYCLE TRANSMISSION AS HE DOES AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN, OR IN THE PETALS OF A
FLOWER Robert M. Pirsig
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A designer knows
they have achieved
PERFECTION not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away Antoine de Saint-ExupĂŠry
Issey Miyake
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DESIGN IS not for philosophy, it’s LIFE
but is inseparable from the flower. Bob Stake
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BEAUTY LIES in the eye of the beholder,
Instead of pouring
KNOWLEDGE
into people's heads, you need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so they can see the world
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John Seely Brown
Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of
John Cleese
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OPERATING
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THE FORMULAIS THE PROBLEM M E L B O R P D E K C I W A F O N TIO
RITTEL & WEBER
ANY
PHILOSOPHY THAT CAN BE PUT
IN A NUTSHELL BELONG
Hillary Putnam 
 (or, maybe, Sydney Harris)
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S IN ONE
LEE SHULMAN
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SOMETIMES YOU THINK IN ORDER TO ACT SOMETIMES YOU ACT IN ORDER TO THINK
A NOVEL OR A POEM A PLAY REMAINS MERELY
INKSPOTS INTO MEANING-
ON PAPER UNTIL A READER TRANSFORMS THEM A SET OF
FUL SYMBOLS
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LOUISE ROSENBLATT
SPOON FEEDING
in the long run
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E. M . Fo
ster
but the shape of the spoon
The
PROBLEM
can’t be defined until
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Rittel & Weber
T E —N S I O N but just the RIGHT amount Donald Norman
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C R E A T E
So what DOES a good teacher do?
Learning is least useful when it is private and hidden. It is most powerful 
 when it becomes public and communal - Lee Shulman
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Learning is powerful
least useful when it is private and hidden; it is most
when it becomes public and communal
Lee Shulman
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The reductive seduction of other people’s problems Courtney Martin
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Beware of
We should never lose sight of the fact that children and teachers in class-rooms are conscious, sentient, and purposive human beings, so no scientific explanation of human behavior could ever be complete. In fact,
NO UNPOETIC DESCRIPTION OF THE HUMAN CONDITION CAN EVER BE COMPLETE David Berliner
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“Would you tell me, please,
WHICH WAY
I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” “I don't much care where …” “Then it
DOESN’T MATTER which way you go.”
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— Lewis Carroll
For a point of view to have any
useful purpose,
you have to be completely committed to it and defend it to the death. And this even when a little voice is murmuring inside you at the same time
y l t h g i l o g t e l , y l t h g i t n o hold — Peter Brook
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Less, but better Dieter Rams
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#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf(â&#x20AC;&#x153;Code can aspire to elegance, â&#x20AC;¨ - Vikram Chandra"); return(0); }
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones - Herbert Simon
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STEP 1: Breakfast STEP 2: TAKE OVER THE WORLD
EVERYONE DESIGNS
who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones
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EVERYONE DESIGNS
who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones Herbert Simon
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EVERYONE DESIGNS who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones - Herbert Simon
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SCIENCE Psychology is a science, and
TEACHING
is an art, and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves. An intermediary inventive mind makes the application by using originality - William James
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ART
There is
one art, no more, no less: to do
all things with artlessness. â&#x20AC;¨ Piet Hein
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Theory and reality are only theoretically related
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The Difference Between Theory And Practice is, in theory, somewhat smaller than in practice ~ Frank Westphal
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A moment’s thought
is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second
Piet Hein
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Image “Time After Time” © Prairie Kittin on Flickr
As eternity
TODAY IS ONLY ONE DAY IN ALL THE DAYS THAT WILL EVER BE. BUT
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN ALL THE OTHER DAYS THAT EVER COME CAN DEPEND ON WHAT
YOU DO TODAY
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