American Masters

I was giving a talk to these kids up at Harvard and they asked me, Mr. Porter, what is design? And I said design is the act of deriving form from fragment--you have all these elements and influences and ideas in your head--how do you put it all together? That's design. American Masters filmed the segment for its Great Minds series--should be airing in the Fall; look for it on PBS!

Ha ha just playing. That actually is a good definition of design though huh? Someone asked me that question in an interview--wish I'd said that. Here's a hilarious site called Master Hellahot that I found while searching for American Masters images.