{"id":25579,"date":"2011-03-05T03:26:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T03:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/we-work-because-its-a-chain-reaction-each\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T03:26:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T03:26:11","slug":"we-work-because-its-a-chain-reaction-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/we-work-because-its-a-chain-reaction-each\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We work because it\u2019s a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><i>\u2014 Charles Eames<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I have a tendency to change up what I do frequently. In 2007, I designed books. In 2008, I was a user interface designer. In 2009, I was an illustrator. In 2011, I\u2019m writing a book. The terminology I use is that I cut my teeth, then wash my hands\u2014meaning I try something new, get proficient, and then move on to something else to try to make meaningful connections. It\u2019s the shark disposition: one must keep moving to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>And so this is my favorite quote in regards to design. The Eames are heroes of mine: such virtuosity over such a wide array of practices. Products for the home, patterns, architecture, movies, I mean, it\u2019s just silly. People have said that doing so was easier back then because the walls between the practices were lower, just like how Da Vinci was able to be on the cusp of understanding in science because we knew so little. I think that\u2019s partially true, but not a convincing enough argument to stand on its own.<\/p>\n<p>The Eames were sharks. One just has to read what Charles said. In work, it\u2019s not that one project leads to the next, it\u2019s that one <i>subject<\/i> leads to the next. If we\u2019re really sniffing out solutions to the problems of people, then we\u2019ll be going down some serious rabbit holes.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t need to say \u201cmulti-disciplinary designer\u201d any more. If we\u2019re truly trying to make things that help all of us to live better, it\u2019s implied and redundant.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Charlie.<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.frankchimero.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">viafrank<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We work because it\u2019s a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next. \u2014 Charles Eames I have a tendency to change up what I do frequently. In 2007, I designed books. In 2008, I was a user interface designer. In 2009, I was an illustrator. In 2011, I\u2019m writing a book. The terminology I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6Ez","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}