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...With a fuselage-gray roof that comes to rest on the ground like giant wingtips, the building has the look of a vast origami stealth bomber. Created by architect Tadao Ando, it is home to 21_21 Design Sight, an ambitious design museum of which Miyake is one of three directors. The others are product designer Naoto Fukasawa and graphics guru Taku Satoh. Their mission is to separate design from the mercantile world of branding, and give it its original, purer meaning: the creation of practical and beautiful objects that improve the quality of life...
...word design is used very frequently in Japan today," says Satoh, "but, in most cases, it is merely a means to sell things. In order to rectify that misconnection, we on the design side must do more to communicate what design really is about...
...name poetically suggests ("21_21" was devised to convey a visual ability that goes beyond mere 20/20), Design Sight intends to be forward-looking if not avant-garde. Its first exhibition-organized by Fukasawa and running until July 29-involves 30 designers, the majority Japanese, responding to the theme of chocolate (the next show is planned along the theme of water). The results are a toothsome twist on product design and consumer desire. The artist HIMAA has made a chocolate key with a bite mark that turns the lock; the design team of Kouhei Okamoto and Toshitaka Nakamura, professionally known...
Seidel, who has a masters degree in urban planning from the Graduate School of Design, added that he also hopes to push environmental concerns on the council, and that this is one area where Cambridge should set an example...
...Still, says Sullivan, it's important to realize these are just first steps. Universal search, introduced last week, is expected to improve over time. "It's not rolled out completely," he says. There is, however, the possibility that users will miss the old Google's clutter-free, text-only design. "It's possible," he noted. "To some degree this is kind of a gamble that they're making. But so far, I haven't heard a big huge screaming reaction from people...