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The personality of space

The personality of space

- [Instructor] Before we discuss the personality that space can bring to a design, I have a bit of a design confession. When I was in high school I was given a design project as an assignment, an assignment that I completely forgot about. We had to design this bumper sticker that represented who we were as teenagers. Before class, friends of mine were showing off their elaborate and artfully designed rectangles representing their various hobbies, interests, and bright futures. And I had nothing, just nothing. Well, this A student panicked, so I whipped out a blank sheet of paper, staring at the emptiness, freaking out, muttering to myself, what do I do, what do I do? There are so many possibilities. And so I wrote that, the possibilities are endless in tiny small letters in the center in pencil with a ton of white space all around, I got an A. And ever since then I have been both equally proud and ashamed of that…

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