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December 16, 2003

A Blog Poem, Part I

Designers Develop
Distinctive Dementia
Denying Dear Debts Due
Descendants now Dead;
Doubt and Denial,
(Dada? Or de Stijl?)
Design Does Defile
Damned Discourse, instead.

Distrustful Detractors
(And Dear benefactors)
Disciples Discharged by
Disgrace or Dismay;
Delaunay and Duchamp
Delacroix (Muschamp?)
Designers Dare toil
the hours away.

DaVinci, De Kooning
(Girardi cartooning)
Delightful, Delicious,
Delovely, Detached;
Dexterity Derailed
For Downloads that retail for
Dollars and Dollars
Of monies mismatched.

Documentation
(eternal Damnation!)
Design Desperation
Dickensian Dash;
Distracted by Distance
Denying resistance
Developing Dapper,
Deceptive panache.

Despite Deconstruction
Determining function
Designers do Decorate,
Detail and Draw;
Database Driven, the
Die-hards (God Love ’em!)
Don Duotones, Deeming:
DESIGN IS THE LAW!

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By Jessica Helfand

Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer and writer and a former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Communications Arts and Eye magazines. A member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame, Helfand received her B.A. and her M.F.A. from Yale University where she has taught since 1994.

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