Beyond Beige: Interpretive Design for the Post-Industrial Age

1) Friedrich Nietzsche, Basic Writings of Nietzsche, Ed. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Modern Library, 1968), 135. 2) Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, "It Don't Mean A Thing" (MCA, 1938). "Without myths every culture loses the healthy power of its creativity: only a horizon defined by myths completes and unifies a whole cultural movement. Myth alone saves all the powers of the imagination and of Apollonian dream from their aimless wanderings. The images of the myth have to be the unnoticed omnipresent demonic guardians, under whose care the young soul grows to maturity and whose signs help the man to interpret his life and struggles. "1