The first two goals are laudable, but the rule of silence seems designed with the third, rather more self-serving, goal in mind.
With the Golden Gate Bridge as a distant backdrop, the Chinese Medicinal Herb Garden was organized, helpfully, by ailment ( "Congestion," "Cancer," and "Parasites") and a miniature farm called "Crops of the World" seemed designed with local gourmands in mind -- growing exotic delicacies like Osaka Purple Mustard and Ruby Crescent potatoes from Peru.
The show was exciting and dovetailed nicely with an era that also boasted the glittering mirror strobe of Studio 54 at a time when shedding your inhibitions was paramount and was reflected in the spare and undulating chairs and sofas which seemed designed with ease of disrobing in mind.
Gallery captioning, exclusively in Spanish, hardly seems designed with those hoped-for tourists in mind.
"If the constitution is passed and goes into effect, she will lose her position on the bench immediately because of a clause that seems designed with one purpose in mind: to dismiss her".
The SILK codec gives Skype services "wideband" audio quality, and seems designed with mobile in mind.
But some Web sites do seem designed with a deliberate lack of flexibility.
Full of gentle gender bending, pop songs and erotically tinged dance interludes, this brisk set of classic children's stories, which unfolds in part on a turning circular stage, seems designed with two distinct audiences in mind: children and their forever-young parents.
The News Corporation has made other moves that seemed designed to curry favor with the Chinese leadership, including the removal of BBC newscasts from Star TV in 1994 and the decision by HarperCollins, the publishing arm of the News Corporation, to cancel a contract for a memoir by Chris Patten, the last colonial governor of Hong Kong.
Everything about this Prada show seemed designed to unsettle, starting with the canapes: two squares of dark chocolate, placed on a domino-sized piece of sourdough bread, and some green grapes.
