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Posted by Allan Chochinov | 5 Nov 2007
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In Asking the Beautiful Question: Design and engineering, Ian Curry ponders the differences and similarities between the enterprise (and evaluation of) engineering versus that of design, and sees some opportunities for not only common language, but common metrics. Here's our favorite part:
As anyone who has ever tinkered with an old BMW engine or looked out on to the wing of a jet can attest, near pure response to engineering requirements can sometimes deliver just as much pleasure as a more intentionally aesthetic design process. Clearly there are differences between engineering and visual design in terms of both the work, and ways of working. As a designer with a relationship mostly to the tradition of visual design, I have recently begun to wonder what exactly those differences are.
And here's a juicy bit to set the hook:
Rice describes engineers often receiving solutions fully formed after a period of rumination. In Rice's account, this owes to a fundamental characteristic of engineering process: engineers are trained to begin not by thinking of solutions, but constraints; successive constraints are applied until only one solution is possible. A good solution owes at least as much to the proper design of constraints as to the eventual solution they imply.
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Wow. Fantastic article...
i just find it that some companies engineers really limit designers to what they can and can't do. In what seems to be that these particular engineers don't want to do something out of the ordinary, and argue to the point that something won't be 200% in it's strength. i am one, all for , overbuilding in some applications, but when beautiful design and differences are being stifled do to an engineer who doesn't want to push his 8 hour day alittle further and try and make something more interesting instead of just a indestructable object. I was taught to always go for that extra 10%...
Nice article to read for a design student such as myself. Just the other day I was discussing the differences and similarities between engineers and designers.
What I would've liked to see was actually some examples of the more "scientifical" engineering fields, not examples taken from architecture, which is already a field closely related to design and visual culture.
After working with engineering students taking minor subjects in industrial design, I've found a more or less clear distinction between design and engineer thinking.
Using an image of a motor and then mostly talking about architecture just doesn't make any connections or comparisons between the two fields.
But anyway a nice read and much thanks.
awesome! my husband is an aerospace engineer and i am a visual designer and this article clearly illustrates the link we have always believed.