I have been working on the Travel Generation design, and those that know about the project will know a how much it means to me. Anyways, I came across an interesting list of how a non-designer should think in order to have a designer point of view. The list is actually 50 points long and is part of designer Karim Rashid’s Karimanifesto but here is the top .

1. Don’t specialise
2. Before giving birth to anything physical, ask yourself if you have created an original idea, an original concept, if there is any real value in what you have disseminated.
3. Know everything about your profession and then forget it all when you design something new
4. Never say “I could have done that” because you didn’t
5. Consume experiences, not things
6. Normal is not good
7. There are three types of beings - those who create culture, those who buy culture and those who don’t give a shit about culture. Move between the first two.
8. Think extensively, not intensively
9. Experience is the most important part of living, and the exchange of ideas and human contact is all life really is. Space and objects can encourage increased experiences or distract from our experiences
10. Here and now is all we got

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