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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.
to make the thing is to make its impact, its memory, the product of its extended use, its legacy, and its language. "Good Design", such that it might exist, is the art of building this phantom value in the future from the most minimal physical compromise in the present.
David Rudnicktwitter.com
Notting Hill is one of my favorite neighborhoods in London because of its unique spatial layout
Instead of large private backyards, the homes and apartments back up to large private communal gardens shared by the entire block