thoughts on "taste"
What is taste? How does one develop it? Will taste and curation become more important in the age of AI and Algorithms?
thoughts on "taste"
Voltaire once wrote that, “in order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work. One must feel beauty and be moved by it.”
In the Age of A.I., What Is Taste? And Do We Still Have It?
Keep asking:
What emotion do I feel when I see this designer’s work — calm, tension, nostalgia, thrill?
What forms repeat across what I love — strong shoulders, column silhouettes, earthy tones, slick minimalism?
What textures make me pause — matte, glossy, tactile, sheer?
You’re training your brain to identify patterns of pleasure. That’s taste.
As fancy and shiny as technology and all things digital are, we are still drawn to small, meaningful objects. Maybe it’s because they just feel really good to hold, own, display, and love.
Sandy Sanchez • The Human Urge to Collect Little Objects
The path to taste is really as simple as writing a little plus and minus in the margin more often.
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
Taste is not the same as correctness, though. To do something correctly is not necessarily to do it tastefully. For most things, correctness is good enough, so we skate by on that as the default. And there are many correct paths to take. You’ll be able to cook a yummy meal, enjoy the movie, build a useable product, don a shirt that fits. But taste... See more
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
Taste comes in lanes. To quote Susan Sontag again, “There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion — and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good... See more