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As the Sopranos entertained for the last time over eight years last night, Design Observer's Michael Beirut gathered his notes to deliver an excellent piece: Everything I Know About Design I Learned from The Sopranos. He runs through an amazingly tangible list from client relationships and professional behavior to technology and aesthetics. Here's a good point on creative professions:

"Event planning? It's gay, isn't it?"

On The Sopranos, interest in certain things, including but not limited to event planning, fashion design, literature, and certain psychological theories, are considered indications of effeminacy. A not unsimilar macho attitude often obtains in corporate boardrooms when it comes to design. A lot of executive decision makers are comfortable with spreadsheets. Show them colors and shapes, on the other hand, and you can see the panic in their eyes as they frantically grope through their memories for that time they helped pick out the fabric covers in their beach houses. Part of your job is making these fellows comfortable with their softer sides.