Design View | Articles and opinion on design professionalism, technique and culture by Andy Rutledge

11.19.09

Risk is too much maligned in western culture these days and that has begun to seriously piss me off.

It wasn’t always so. The west, the US in particular, used to be a place where risktaking was understood to be a fundamental component of life; successful life especially. A life free from risk is a life bereft of liberty, a life of bondage…

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Design View | Articles and opinion on design professionalism, technique and culture by Andy Rutledge

11.19.09

Risk is too much maligned in western culture these days and that has begun to seriously piss me off.

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