The age of average — Alex Murrell
www.alexmurrell.co.uk
In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each piece was intended to be a unique a colla
  • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
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    1 hour ago

    the same happens in development with minimalism. for some reason it’s the standard even among gnuhards, literally everything is black and as little expression as possible. there’s these android drawers which literally show apps as a list of text with no icon. yeah, that’s exactly what i want to see, so beautiful… or if you browse unixporn, you’ll see most hyprland/niri whatever rices are gnome… i think we should definitely start to take a few lessons from the 2000’s school of design. most defintely there were shitty thing, and code minimalism is good. but the user has so very little agency in the expression of how their software looks nowadays that’s sad.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 hour ago

      It’s an interesting social phenomenon how most people tend to gravitate towards whatever style happens to be dominant at the time. And it’s not that certain ones are inherently better than others as we see styles cycle over time.