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As preliminary judges for CRMA, it's alway interesting to see the different design tastes of your fellow designers. It's strange that good design, most of the time, is in the eyes of the beholder. I know some of my students from last semester were a little annoyed with how, supposedly arbitrary, the grades they got were. But is design really subjective or are there basic tenets and principles we crazy designers subscribe to? I looked up "what makes good design" in google.com and I found this on www.paulgraham.com/taste.html. Granted he is talking about all kinds of design, from industrial and web to print design, I still thought his points were valid. Some of his points included,

"Good design is simple. Good design solves the right problem. Good design is often slightly funny. Good design is hard. Good design looks easy. Good design is redesign. Good design can copy. Good design is often daring."

Go to his website for more.

http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html