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Welcome to the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative

Design is the world remade in human form.
The U.S. National Design Policy Initiative advocates for a governmental plan of action to support design in service of U.S. economic competitiveness and democratic governance.

The U.S. design communities seek to enable through a U.S. national design policy:

* design promotion to boost the demand for American goods and services,
* innovation policy to protect American intellectual property and support the People’s entrepreneurial spirit,
* design standards to guarantee inclusion, sustainability, safety, and quality in the experiences of the human remade world; and
* policy as designed to address design’s role in making American democratic values tangible to the People.

"These drawings are a methodical interpretation of the first two chapters of A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schzophrenia (Wikipedia link) by Gilles Delueze and Felix Guattari, translated by Brian Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, 1987."

Lovely.