‘You know you have achieved perfection in design’, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, the great adventurer, once wrote, ‘not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.’

While design and creativity are noble concepts and innovation a powerful notion, the reality is that it is very difficult to operationalise design quality. It seems self-evident to reduce such questions back to the desired values… but what are they?

While growth and development is part of education, discrimination remains one of the fundamental purposes… the challenge is how are we to discriminate fairly?

Daniel Smith