Thomas Brett
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Resonant Thoughts: Leonard Koren’s “Musings Of A Curious Aesthete” (2020)
“Beauty is typically associated with bringing new things into existence: A beautiful painting. A beautiful musical composition. Beautiful architecture…But beauty, I realized at that instant, can also be created and/or restored by removing things from existence. Like eliminating the visible consequences of thoughtless human action. That is what I did when picking up litter in Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ernö Rubik’s “Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All” (2020)
“I had no deadline. I simply enjoyed the problem I had stumbled upon and knew that, for me, working on a problem is a prerequisite for fostering–or liberating–my imagination.” “At its core, design is the link to nature for artificial objects. Nature does not know strict borders; it only knows transition. An understanding of the Continue reading
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