Good design
Yanis Markin and
Good design
"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris
As a practical matter, I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something that they thought ugly. Great work usually seems to happen because someone sees something and thinks,
I could do better than that.
I could do better than that.
Paul Graham • Taste for Makers
cheeses breads salads patisserie coffees catering
the barefoot contessa
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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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Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible