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The last two chapters of Design: A very short introduction were really good.  I thought it was very interesting to hear about design in Japan and their industry.  I also thought it was interesting that a lot of large design companies were established at first to make one specific product and then gradually branched out.  In this last section of the reading I also thought a lot about how design is sometimes thought of something that is new, not always universal to everyone, and can be very expensive but the book talked about how there is now a whole new market for design that designs things for third world countries in order to help them out.  I thought this was something that is very important.