Hi. Good thoughts. Given your reading list, I wondered whether you'd read David Pye's books The Nature and Aesthetics of Design and The Nature and Art of Workmanship. These are favorites of mine. I was originally turned on to the latter by a bibliographic entry in a Gerald Weinberg book. Pye's discussion of the relationship of designer and "workman" is especially relevant to your comments here, but I think you'd dig these books if you haven't read them.

Dan Read