Sunday, December 11, 2005

Bartleby the Designer How curious. Dmitri Siegel crafts a design essay out of Bartleby's "I prefer not to." But the words that endeared Bartleby to me long, long ago were less indefinite: "I know you, and I want nothing to say to you." Dmitri Siegel: Bartelby[dot accent]. In his classic story of Wall Street, Bartelby the Scrivener, Herman Melville recounts the tale of a humble copyist employed by the story's narrator. Could Bartelby's perfectly crafted refrain be the appropriate response to a world where every choice and configuration has been designed? [Design Observer: writings about design & culture] 9:38:00 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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