I was now compiling a color-it-yourself book in which the spaces might have seductive outlines but were not to carry any instructions.
Large pictures of ground apparently blackened by fire are laminated to aluminum panels; they have seductive matte surfaces, following the now overly familiar trend of photography that wants to be like painting.
Mr. Droxler grows more interesting when two bored aristocrats (Rebecca Whitehurst, as a predator in a black bob, and Raife Baker as a preening dilettante) decide to have seductive sport with Gwynplaine, and his charm morphs into powerful if all too brief glints of menace and tragic suffering.
Such linear thinking might have seductive appeal for politicians on a short electoral leash but I think we are fortunate in the UK in having progressed the political debate to a level of sophistication where the value of funding curiosity-led research is widely-acknowledged.
All these approaches have seductive ability and economic power to distract designers from critical thinking, from working out specific solutions for a given context, and they overall prevent them from using planning and design as a knowledge tool.
(Somehow, this formula is not as straightforward when it comes to the representation of female characters -- evil or malicious women can also have seductive attributes).
