Mies, a Devon Rex cat. Gary Venter, New Zealand
Three days before I was born, my grandfather's business partner passed away, and I was named for him. Had he survived, I would have been named Rebecca. But instead, I was named for Jack — Jewish tradition allowing for the first initial to honor the name of the deceased loved one.
Jack's last name was
Katz and I've always wondered: what if Jewish tradition bowed to the last instead of the first name? Would I have been Katherine, Karen, Kimberly? Or might things have taken an even odder turn, like that which befell the immigrant haberdasher, Horatio Katz, back in 1849 when his name was mis-translated as "feline" which was subsequently misinterpreted as
Filene?
No such problem for our true feline companions, who dwell in and around the studios of so many designers, a sampling of whom are shown here. Not one of them is named Jessica, by the way. (Nor, for that matter, Jack or Horatio.) But we've got an Adolf and a Fyodor, a Mies and a Monotone, even a Fred and a Lucy. (No Ethel or Ricky, however.)
Behold: our collection of feline wonders, and the designers who named them.
[Canine lovers can find solace in our original post,
Dogs and Their Designers.]
Comments [35]
Forty-three pictures of designers with a fairly good geographic representation.
And they are all white.
Does this say something?
03.29.09
04:26
-or they
Invite them readily onto their designed spaces with expectations that pets are more adaptable to their design than
humans accepting of a lessor creatures natural habitat?
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This was not an attack on DO regarding political correctness! Not at all!
I think it's just interesting. I think it's VERY interesting. And it isn't DO that is responsible for the situation at hand.
03.29.09
11:57
As I have noted elsewhere I find it interesting to notice people's tendency of color to lean toward either magenta or yellow or even tinged with cyan instead of just evaluations in shades of K on that scale.
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11:32
Please read below, I did not call out DO on being Politically Correct.
My question was speaking to a larger issue; Is there racial diversity among Designers in the community; period. Many founders and famous contemporaries are racially homogenous (for the most part).
Though, I would be happy to be disproved.
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I thought meticulous scrutiny of detail and the visual is the life and job of a designer?
Mind you, I'm not saying what I said is normal for DO.
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FWIW I totally agree that a discussion of race seems spectacularly out of place here. A bit baffline.
03.30.09
11:59
Best, Bill
ACK!!!
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Ciao!
03.31.09
11:20
But that just falls into the trap of assuming that we can tell whether people are 'diverse' or not by looking at them. Just as not all asians 'look same' or are the same, not all white people are either.
Just food for thought! I appreciate the well-considered comments from most of the people above.
Thanks for a cute and inspiring slideshow.
03.31.09
01:16
Dancing With Cats
and
Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics
03.31.09
05:21
The Color Kittens. Are there people in America who have grown up not knowing about Brush and Hush? and all the colors in the world?
The book's famous catch phrase is "Blue is blue, and red is red! They still need green!" RGB
and now look about us, they have marketed green allover, but have the people really seen it?
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micah mcdaniel
04.03.09
12:32
The reason is obvious. The cats prefer them. (q.e.d.?)
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http://respuesta-rapida.net
04.08.09
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(I'm writing this as my own little five-week old tries climbing up my pant leg)
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