“Nowadays, the passion of design educators seems to be technology; they fear that computer illiteracy will handicap their graduates. But it’s the broader kind of illiteracy that’s more profoundly troubling. Until educators find a way to expose their students to a meaningful range of culture, graduates will continue to speak in languages that only their classmates understand. And designers, more and more, will end up talking to themselves.”

— Michael Bierut in”Why Designers Can’t Think,” essay # 2 of his excellent Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design, now out in paperback. An added treat for design nerds – each essay in the book is set in a different typeface that plays on its subject.

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