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Working With Rick Rubin on ‘The Creative Act: A Way of Being’
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Why does design need to be in the boardroom when it can occasionally run the boardroom? Why aren’t there at least a few more designers running Fortune 500 companies? I don’t have an answer for that, but I do know a couple things: I think of myself maybe as a designer, but I’m not a designer the way most of you are, but I designed our business... See more
Navigating the intersection of design and business: a conversation with Airbnb’s Brian Chesky | Figma Blog
This Brand Strategy Can Make Your Startup Look Bigger Than It Is
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“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.
