| 01.5 Acknowledgments xiii
01 Introduction xvii
Designing Failure By Steven Heller
Learning from Failure 1
02 On Failure 2
By Allan Chochinov
03 Fail Safe 7
By Debbie Millman
04 Failure: An Owner’s Manual 13
By Ben Kessler
05 From the Annals of Self-Delusion 16
By Robert Grossman
06 The Power of Leaving Things Half Done 25
By Rob Trostle
07 My Hack Career 29
By Marian Bantjes
08 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ulcer 34
By Rick Meyerowitz
The Language of Failure 43
09 Failure Is an Occasion for Mixing Metaphors 44
By David Barringer
10 Stumbling Is the Cost of Doing Business 51
By Ralph Caplan
11 Hailing, Failing, and Still Sailing 57
By Richard Saul Wurman
12 Wrong Is the New Right 71
By Nick Currie
13 Memory Failure and Imagination 82
By Peter Blegvad
14 Overcommitment: A Recipe for Failure 92
By Ina Saltz
15 When Things Go Wrong 97
By Amanda Bowers
Succeeding from Failure 103
16 Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Maverick Tendency in Graphic Design 104
By Ken Garland
17 The Failure of Success/The Success of Failure 117
By Warren Lehrer
18 No Time for Failure 126
By David Jury
19 The Evolution of Useful Things: Success through Failure 133
By Henry Petroski
20 Design as Slow-Motion Train Wreck 138
By Ross MacDonald
21 The Nadir of My Zenith: How Great Design Failures Hath Murdered Sleep 150
By Francis Levy
22 The Art of the Deadline 156
By Alissa Walker
The Objects of Failure 161
23 My Worst Work 163
By Veronique Vienne
24 Deathdrome. A Video Game Package. 168
By Stefan Sagmiester
25 Architectural Rendering: The Failure of Imagination 173
By William Drenttel
26 An Uphill Struggle 180
By David Womack
27 Spinout: Was Building a Soap Box Derby Racer My Brother’s Last Best Chance of Escaping His Fate? 186
By Colin Berry
Biographies 198 |
