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Stewart Brand – Whole Earth Catalog – Fall 1968
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Aesthetic Convergence
by Toby Shorin
35 blocks • 17 days ago
Might get some hate for this but..
Might get some hate for this but..
That Startup Logo Is Trying to Tell You Something
That Startup Logo Is Trying to Tell You…
Objets Mécaniques
Objets Mécaniques
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"The #Kinfolk community is united less by particular ideas about how to live than a superficial visual style. It enforces monotony rather than embracing differences of identity. The same emblems of aspiration can now be found in Brooklyn or Copenhagen as easily as Tokyo, Lisbon, London, or Istanbul, and Kinfolk is always there to provide them, piggybacking on the meme it has become.

The challenge that Williams and Ouur face is how to reclaim an image of self-affirming authenticity when the perspective that once made them unique is now universal. It's the hipster paradox: you can't be both nonconformist and part of a massive, global group.

"Convergence is possible only at the price of shedding identity," architect Rem Koolhaas wrote in his 1995 book, The Generic City. "Identity is like a mousetrap in which more and more mice have to share the original bait, and which, on closer inspection, may have been empty for centuries.""

Davide Luciano -New York Food Photographer - Food Photography NYC - FOOD
Davide Luciano -New York Food Photograp…
Davide Luciano -New York Food Photographer - Food Photography NYC - FOOD
Davide Luciano -New York Food Photograp…
Interesting Web Design and UX
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353 blocks • about 9 hours ago
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