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Originally Posted by tom hyle
My friend has a Japanese gardening book. In this book it says it is very important to understand the masters of the past. It says we study them, not so we can imitate them, but so that we can learn from all they did and thought, and take off from there; so the art grows with each passing generation.
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Tom,
I thank you. I think the present is an accumulation of all the pasts and I agree that we can take off from there, as we are inheritors of all the pasts, taking in consideration that we have absorbed it.
In as much as a designer is concerned, specially nowadays where design has become a profession in itself, I would consider a cell phone to be an engineered design evolving from the ancient drums as an early code of communication.
Best regards,
Antonio