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You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown

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257 points delaugust | 1 comments | 24 Apr 25 21:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | source
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motohagiography ◴[24 Apr 25 22:59 UTC] No.43788457[source]▶
to me designers are the real architects of history, however, the cybertruck example as brash i disagree with for specific reasons.

it is a perfect example of what it does without any deference to other design languages. instead of po-mo symbolism, it really is just the sufficient metal and glass to do the thing. an essential truck is unsentimental working capital. its not a duck, its an undecorated shed.

i think the design will age very well because there's nothing to add to it.

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1. blt ◴[25 Apr 25 03:45 UTC] No.43789919[source]▶
The design shows a fundamental misunderstanding of sheet metal. Flat sheet metal is weak. Only curved sheet metal can be strong. Designs that lack mechanical sympathy with the materials in use don't tend to age well.