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I'm back. Writing about design. Which sounds like writing about animals. So general. But really, it's not. Design is decision. It's reaction. Intention. It's that moment when you arrange things in space.

Everybody does it, is what I'm saying. Not necessarily well, but we all do it. When you cut your peanut butter and jelly sandwich on the diagonal, you are making a design decision. When you straighten the knife alongside the plate, you are having a design reaction. When you fan your hand of cards out evenly in a poker game, you are having a design moment. You are attempting to create visual order because somehow it feels better. If you're a designer you already know why. If you're not, we'll get there. Fluff a pillow. Straighten a pile of papers. Wash your car. Choose the green soap over the white soap. Go ahhh over flowers. Scratch label gunk off the cover of your favorite magazine. Really.

Some people are obsessed. Or can't stop collecting. Or are professional. Certain interior designers can turn a cement cavern of a room into a swank dream (James Rixner, hellooo). Some people salivate over the latest issue of Architectural Design like it's porn. This column is for everyone. Superstars and upstarts and dreamers and DIY-ers. We all have friends whose places just look so intensely cool, even if it's all from the thrift store. Or because it's all from the thrift store. And I walked into a perfect little prefab house the other day and everything was green and hemp colored and everything was organic and green and I just about died it was so monotonous, despite the very very very, can I say very best intentions.

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