Notes on connection: Some incomplete thoughts with room for improvements

by Ralph Caplan

One of four publications created for Herman Miller Incorporated, in very limited quantities by the great design thinker Ralph Caplan, published by and for Herman Miller of Zeeland Michigan, and beautifully designed by the great John Massey. All four began with the words..."some incomplete thoughts with room for improvement, by Ralph Caplan." The others in the series begin ATTENTION. TENSION. And OMISSION. They are Caplan's musings on industrial design relative to CONNECTION. ATTENTION. TENSION. And OMISSION. All are RARE as they were only published for in-house distribution by Herman Miller.

Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1978

About the author

Ralph Caplan is a contributing editor at Print magazine, a regular contributor to VOICE: The AIGA Online Journal of Graphic Design and has written articles for Design Quarterly, Interior Design, The New York Times, and House and Garden. He began his long and distinguished career in design journalism in the late 1950's as editor-in-chief at I.D. Magazine. His books include By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons (Fairchild, 2005) and Cracking the Whip: Essays On Design And Its Side Effects (Fairchild, 2005). Ralph has also written extensively for and about the furniture manufacturer Herman Miller. He is a director emeritus of the International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado, an honorary member of IDSA, and, in 2005, was a writer-in-residence at Haystack Mountain School of Arts and Crafts.