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- We’re highly attuned to contradictions, I think. You might say they make us who we are. Even our attitude to contradictions is contradictory - we indulge our own but deny others the right to any.
- It’s the journey towards an endless horizon that matters—goals and dreams that move forward with you as you chase them. It’s all about meaningful pursuits—the “moving”
from 19 Great Truths My Grandmother Told Me on Her 90th Birthday by Marc Chernoff
- I like sprinting through the city streets at midnight while listening to sad music because it makes my heart feel like it’s being put through the washing machine.
from (self) concept by Molly Mielke
- “Design should also be sensual and exciting.”
from 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.
- a novel is like a party. Anybody who wants to join in can join in, and those who wish to leave can do so whenever they want.” So, how do you invite people and things to this party? Or how do you get to a place when you’re writing where they can come uninvited?
from The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Deborah Treisman
- Innovative Ideas fuelled by Emotional Intelligence
from Jack London
- I’m open to writing about heavy things but want to deliver them gracefully.
the art of writing and Journal
Snippet form Kristoffer’s Year Review
- Economics contaminates all our motives, forcing, in Amartya Sen’s words, “smallness on us”.
from The economics of love: Following the heart, not the head by Robert Skidelsky
a publication by @Kristoffer + Are.na about the absences Naive Yearly formed itself around.