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Re:The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018) by barrkel on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:30PM (#23342932)
I don't think there's any such thing as "no design" (though I understand you to mean the academic subject).

All design evokes something. Colours, font, margin and spacing, edges and borders - it all evokes some things that came before it more than others, and the relationship with the human body and its feeling of agoraphobia and claustrophobia, kinematics - whether controls are pointy or smooth, hard or soft, stiff or slick or springy, continuous or with detents - it all adds up to an aesthetic.

You can't help but have design. You know when things don't "feel" right. When something feels flimsy instead of solid; when it's haphazard instead of regular. And when the design is exceptionally poor, chaotic, that too is a design - a kind of mad, insane design, or primitive and naive, unskilled - it always evokes something.

Re:The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018) by cosmodisk on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:51PM (#23343192)
I meant it as an academic subject. In terms of colour,shape,form, function,and other,so called design properties, were well understood, however not always applied, especially in consumer products.