Reading Reflection Number 2!

In the assigned reading from John Heskett's book, Design: A Very Short Introduction, I found the evolution of design and designers, from as far back as the year 600 B.C., like the woomera of Australian aborigines who created hunting spears, to present, was very shocking and interesting. I think what stuck out to me the most was the way Heskett said design is basically evolved from different cultures. Each has their own style and method to design, which makes sense if one was to really look at something from two different countries and actually compared the two. The example used in the book was toothpicks from Norwegia and Japan, the forms and style are uncomparable, besides the obvious that they are both a form of toothpicks. Aside from product evolution, the process of producing these materials have changed tremendously since it has went from craftsmanship, which is concentrated construction of a product one by one, to factory production which likely doesn't have the quality of a craftsman's product but it saves time with a surplus quanitity of the product. Even though some things are good quality, it seems like factory production is careless and quality of product isn't as good if there isn't concentrated creation on it. It would be merely impossible to do this with all production but maybe with design at it has been evolving according to Heskett will create a way to improve factory production and quality.