Where Design Meets Life by Alice Rawsthorn- visordown

http://www.visordown.com/forum/anything-goes/where-design-meets-life-by-alice-rawsthorn-slideshare/431334.html Victor Papanek argued that all men are designers. None perhaps more effective than the early 18th-century pirate Edward Teach, the formidable Blackbeard. Teach's reputation as an indomitable pirate relied on the visual persona he created. Not just the beard itself but the whole ensemble of heavy coat, big boots and huge dramatic hat with lighted matches sputtering beneath the rim struck such terror in his victims that resistance fell away.