As a product design student in the sixties I was tasked with designing and constructing a “folded skin” from Bristol board paper that would be derived from a symmetrical pattern. Most of my colleagues commenced their exploration by beginning with a symmetrical triangular design. They would score and fold it in various configurations until they arrived at a three dimensional product they deemed worthy of submission. By my understanding of the deductive and inductive approach to problem solving I called the triangular approach a DEDUCTIVE approach because their original design premise assumed that working from triangles was an apriori approach. I considered my approach to be inductive because I started from no design premise but simply commenced cutting out shapes, taping them together, and then unfolding (flattening out) the product that would reveal a symmetrical two dimensional pattern without any gaps that would require a cutting not permitted in the assignment.