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Title: A more intimate relationship Date: 2008-02-20 19:42 Author: Femke Tags: Texts, Reading list Slug: a-more-intimate-relationship Status: published David Reinfurt's essay **[Making do and getting by](http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/thinktank/makingdo)** departs from the work of Muriel Cooper and Anthony Froshaug, and relates their critically engaged practice to contemporary projects such as Juerg Lehni's [Scriptographer](http://www.scriptographer.com). In this way, he convincingly shows how designers can and should reclaim a more intimate relationship with the digital production of their work. Although he remains quite vague about what this could really mean; sticks to a plugin architecture for Adobe software and uses MacOSX as example of an Open Source Project... his text contains many inspiring examples and interesting points of departure. > "Individually, we can commit to using software critically, engage the > mechanics of production, ask questions, use old software, share, write > new software and refuse to passively consume the latest innovations. > Like Muriel, Anthony, Will and Hektor have suggested, this might > actually lead us back — closer to our work." <http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/thinktank/makingdo/> <small>Yes, indeed: published on the website of Adobe's *Design Center Think Tank* ;-)</small>
