“This book is not a recipe book. Nor is it a travel guide. Recipes diminish personal initiative; travel guides make things too comfortable. Few will choose the arduous path through unexplored terrain when an easier one lies conveniently nearby. But creative design is undoubtedly a tightrope walk. Missteps and even complete failures are always possible, sometimes even inevitable. Drawing strength from setbacks and venturing boldly into unfamiliar territory, these are metaphorical descriptions of how we begin to approach the complex process of artistic creation. Incompleteness, awkwardness, inaccessibility, wrong turns, and stumbling blocks are all part of the gradual search for direction; they are part of the design process itself.”

Jonak, Ulf. Grundlagen der Gestaltung.

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