From "Q and A: Tim Gunn" (Smithsonian, December 2010):
“Make it work” was born in my classrooms. It came from teaching students who, in the course of working through a particular project, were unhappy with how it was evolving. They were inclined to abandon the entire effort and start again from scratch. I would never let them do that. I would say, let’s study this. You study it, you bring your own critical analysis and objectivity to it, offer up a diagnosis of what’s wrong with it and then offer a prescription for how to make it work. Doing so provides the individual with a whole set of resources to draw upon when moving forward to the next project. It’s about problem solving. And it’s a skill that’s not just applied to design projects, but to how we navigate life.
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