💡 on beauty

But most websites today prioritize efficiency and usability, which leads to a kind of architectural sameness. “Everybody's house sort of looks the same,” he says, “you're taking the same hallway... because we’ve fallen into the same UI patterns.” He wonders about a new kind of website that invites curiosity rather than just guiding a behavior.... See more

If you want to understand a society, don’t listen to what it says about itself — look at what it creates. You can learn everything about the Victorians — the good and the bad — just by looking at their lamp posts.

And what do the ordinary details of the modern world say about us? That we are technologically advanced, very efficient... and care more... See more

“It has become self-evident that it can no longer be a question of developing beauty from function alone, but we demand beauty as equal to function, that [beauty] be equally a function.” —Max Bill

We reject the shallow conformity of the engineering mindset, the stifling constraints of form following function, the illusion of minimalism, and the monotony of linearity.

In their place, we rediscover artistic principles rooted in tangibility, natural forms, the unicity of objects, and the texture and materiality of the physical world.

We impose... See more

Craft Is the Antidote to Slop "The devil’s oldest strategy is, of course, promising godlike creation without godlike effort." https://t.co/3LMU326wSe