{"id":439,"date":"2009-10-05T20:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2009-10-07T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T20:25:41","slug":"stefan-sagmeister-at-rit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2009\/10\/05\/stefan-sagmeister-at-rit\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Sagmeister at RIT"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought 15 minutes was sufficiently early to arrive, but by the time I got to the The Caroline Werner Gannett Project<\/a><\/strong>, Ingle Auditorium<\/strong> at RIT<\/a><\/strong> (One Lomb Memorial Dr.<\/a>, campus map<\/a>) was completely full and I had to watch a video-feed with another 60-or-so people in the 1829 Room next door. Designer Stefan Sagmeister<\/a><\/strong> was the speaker and he did indeed discuss Design and Happiness<\/strong>. You can get an idea of what the discussion was like through his similar TED lecture from a few years ago: Stefan Sagmeister shares happy design<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As I had expected, the lecture gave me some inspiration. I knew Sagmeister would comment on the tenuous balance of being creative — after all, he closes his design studio for a year in every five years to do non-work-related endeavors.<\/p>\n

His observations on happiness reminded me of that which I often forget: that much of happiness is a temporary feeling. He divided it up into three layers: short-lived joy, mid-ranged satisfaction from accomplishment, and long-term fulfillment from pride in one's life. I forget that happiness at one layer is not experienced the same as at other layers: although my life philosophy has generally kept me fulfilled, that does not make me feel joyful in and of itself.<\/p>\n

His lecture also reminded me that good design matters. It's good to have a world where we can feel pleasure, and we can feel pleasure from interacting with something well-designed. And by that, I mean everything. Like I think the Frederick Douglass — Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge<\/a><\/strong> (formerly the Troup-Howell Bridge) is a good design: it carries vehicles across the river just as effectively as a bridge that looks awful, but it has a certain elegance to its design that makes people feel<\/em> good. On the other hand, The Monroe Community Hospital<\/a><\/strong> (435 E. Henrietta Rd.<\/a>) is apparently having a chain-link fence erected around it: an ugly barrier that says, \"we have problems with the likes of you<\/em> entering our property\" and makes people feel bad. And to think that everything in the world can effect a mood like that: wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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