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Jilber Najem and
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Folkert Gorter
folkert.link
Design is the intermediary between information and understanding.
— Hans Hofmann
So much of design is digital systems design is organization design, we should be talking about the aesthetics of organizations.
Joakim Jansson
sanscolour.com
“Design should also be sensual and exciting.”
Creatives behind Glossier and Brat explain the new rules of branding
Sottsass came up in a modernist design world that valued rigidity, utility, and simplicity; asking designers to ask themselves what is necessary and drop everything else. As famed industrial designer Dieter Rams has said, “Good design is as little design as possible.” Sottsass epitomizes basically the complete opposite of that.
Sottsass’s work made the case for the necessity of the superfluous. Expressive use of color, form, and decorative elements are elemental to design done well. In the modern era, design is leaning into sensuality and excitement too.