it's a desire in disguise...

While i was searching for the best definition of what is design that would fit my thesis' main point...

this one hit me the hardest... it's from a blog of an arabian girl entitled "Desert Bloom" . she's also a freelance graphic designer. she listed down a few quotes by famous designers that she got from the book "401 Design Mediations".

and this is the one.

Design is desire disguised as a function. by Terence Riley

Yes, it's short. But it perfectly sums up what I wanted to say. Designs are made to do something. it must serve a function or else, it has failed you or i would like to say, it sucked.

We view it as a something that works for us. But i believe it's more than that. I would like to view designs no matter what type, as something that came out of our desires. That desire that has made us do whatever it takes to design something that we needed. It's that longing to have a better way in all things that gave birth to designs.

I believe that this quote by Riley relates to all kinds of design no matter what country it comes from.