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The Elegance of Nothing
“If Nike opened a hotel, I think we'd be able to guess pretty accurately what it would be like. If Hyatt came out with sneakers, we'd have no clue. Because Hyatt doesn't have a brand. They have a logo."
Matt Klein • Interview with Seth Godin: On Strategy, Stories & How to Hack Back
Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. For example, to have no screws on something, you can end up having a product that is so convoluted and so complex. The better way is to go deeper with the ... See more
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Simplicity can make itself known in many forms: products, strategies, corporate hierarchies, processes, ads, speeches, and a hundred other places. But nowhere is Simplicity found in such a concentrated form as the name of a new product.
Ken Segall • Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
Retail brands are curators of a way of life - there’s a Prada life, an ON Running life, a Jenni Kayne life. In addition to their core business, brands build the entire worlds that customers step into.
Ana Andjelic • What retail CEOs don't know
It’s a style that distills a message to its essence. No noise, no clutter.
We’ve seen the ’90s and ’00s aesthetics return in fashion and design - but is advertising following suit? And more importantly, can minimalism deliver the same impact for emerging or lesser-known brands that can’t depend on immediate recognition?
We’ve seen the ’90s and ’00s aesthetics return in fashion and design - but is advertising following suit? And more importantly, can minimalism deliver the same impact for emerging or lesser-known brands that can’t depend on immediate recognition?
As engineering has improved and knock-offs have increased, though, the two-hundred-year tradition of physical luxury goods is fading away.