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Learning to See

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Learning to design is learning to see, an adventure that gets more and more captivating the further you go. A love letter to my profession.

March 19, 2013 Learning to See A love letter ‹ Previous 26 MIN READ Next › Learning to design is learning to see , an adventure that gets more and more captivating the further you go. A love letter to our profession. Our mind is not a camera. Seeing is not a passive act. We see what we expect to see , or, as Anaïs Nin put it so beautifully: “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” The idea that our perception is as much a result of what we are able to know as of what we expect to find is not new. Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is based on this insight: Up to now it ha

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