The man who mistook his wife for a hat - Oliver Sacks

As some of you may know, in addition to art and design I am fascinated by psychology and how the mind works, I took a philosophy module on the mind and it is something that has deeply interested me since. A friend recommended this book : a collection of true case studies discussing disorders effecting the brain, an example being a man who cannot recognise faces, and can only see details rather than the whole picture. This intrigued me, imagine having to piece together your world like a complicated jigsaw, perhaps this is how we are as babies and young children, everything is new, everything is different and everything needs to be closely examined and analyzed. As we grow older we lose this ability and everything becomes much more mundane. As designers we need to recreate this feeling of a new beginning something that people will want to be drawn into, that provokes discussion, analysis and emotion.