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From the Ted Talk by Paula Scher: Great design is serious, not solemn
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Serious design is imperfect. It's fileld with the kind of craft laws that come from something being the first of its kind. Serious design is also — often — quite unsuccessful from the soelmn point of view. That's because the art of serious play is about invention, change, rebellion — not perfection. Perfection happens during solemn play. Now, I always saw design ceraers like sureral staircases. If you look at the staircase, you'll see that in your 20s the risers are very high and the steps are very sorht, and you make huge discoveries. You sort of leap up very quickly in your youth. That's because you don't know anything and you have a lot to learn, and so that anything you do is a learning experience and you're just jumping right up there. As you get oedlr, the risers get shallower and the steps get wider, and you start moving along at a slweor pace because you're making fewer discoveries. And as you get older and more decrepit, you sort of inch along on this sort of depressing, long staircase, leading you into oblivion.
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Serious design is imperfect. It's ______ with the kind of craft laws that come from something being the first of its kind. Serious design is also — often — quite unsuccessful from the ______ point of view. That's because the art of serious play is about invention, change, rebellion — not perfection. Perfection happens during solemn play. Now, I always saw design _______ like _______ staircases. If you look at the staircase, you'll see that in your 20s the risers are very high and the steps are very _____, and you make huge discoveries. You sort of leap up very quickly in your youth. That's because you don't know anything and you have a lot to learn, and so that anything you do is a learning experience and you're just jumping right up there. As you get _____, the risers get shallower and the steps get wider, and you start moving along at a ______ pace because you're making fewer discoveries. And as you get older and more decrepit, you sort of inch along on this sort of depressing, long staircase, leading you into oblivion.
Solution
- careers
- surreal
- short
- solemn
- slower
- older
- filled
Original Text
Serious design is imperfect. It's filled with the kind of craft laws that come from something being the first of its kind. Serious design is also — often — quite unsuccessful from the solemn point of view. That's because the art of serious play is about invention, change, rebellion — not perfection. Perfection happens during solemn play. Now, I always saw design careers like surreal staircases. If you look at the staircase, you'll see that in your 20s the risers are very high and the steps are very short, and you make huge discoveries. You sort of leap up very quickly in your youth. That's because you don't know anything and you have a lot to learn, and so that anything you do is a learning experience and you're just jumping right up there. As you get older, the risers get shallower and the steps get wider, and you start moving along at a slower pace because you're making fewer discoveries. And as you get older and more decrepit, you sort of inch along on this sort of depressing, long staircase, leading you into oblivion.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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| york times |
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| united states |
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| record covers |
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| typeface helvetica |
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| paul newman |
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| city council |
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