Beauty in the machine: post-industrial design
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Beauty in the machine: post-industrial design
how design has become mass user-centered, driven by rules of optimization, efficiency and engineering.
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
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how design has become mass user-centered, driven by rules of optimization, efficiency and engineering.
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
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Why are we seeing a global homogenizing of culture across every dimension that counts? Why has Hollywood become so creatively bankrupt that nobody bothers watching that oh-so-predictable-52nd sequel to a superhero movie? Why have pop songs become so objectively similar? Why is everyone following the same formula for their posts on Instagram and hum... See more
invencion.com • Culture & the Algorithm.
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important, it is easy to feel uncomfortable about enjoying the aesthetic side of design, because it can feel superficial to care about how things look. Equally problematic is our growing suspicion of beauty, especially the conventional variety, at a time when cut-price cosmetic surgery, jaw-dropping digital effects in movies and the digital retouch... See more
Alice Rawsthorn • Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.
-Virginia Postrel, The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value is Rem
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Graphic design, the discipline of aesthetic production, is facing a crisis as it reconciles with catastrophic effects of network technology on its profitability. Even prolific designers who produce work with a characteristic original aesthetic are quickly copied. As their work is pillaged and reproduced downstream (leftstream), it becomes increasin... See more
Toby Shorin • Report: The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics
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