[Yomoyamonogatari A Thousand and One and the Law of the Joshua Tree｜pepeprism｜note]
Joshua Tree Law (Joshua Tree Principal) is an episode introduced at the beginning of The Non Designer’s Design Book *1, a famous manual on document layout design, which goes as follows .
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Robin Williams*2 first learned of the Joshua Tree while browsing through a botanical reference book at his town library. The tree described in the book with a picture was something he had never seen before in the town where he had lived for a long time.
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However, Robin Williams discovers the Joshua Tree everywhere on his way home from the library. A tree he thought he had never seen before…
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The Non Designer’s Design Book
What this episode shows is that “once you know its name, you see it.” Another way to put it is, “Once you don’t know its name, you don’t recognize it.”
Name is the first thing to be recognized and share with others
relevance - I can’t recognize a language I can’t read.
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