Topic

philosophy

A collection of 6 issues

On Kant, aesthetics, and consumption.

I’ve been bantering back and forth with designers about aesthetics in design, via this fascinating discussion. Someone suggested that if aesthetics is so important (which it is), then design students should study the philosophical origins of aesthetics. I completely agree (why isn’t this already a given in design

The shoes I wore to meet the architect....

were weathered white oxfords with robin’s egg blue wingtips. Shoes with a point-of-view. To design a house is an intimate, opinionated thing. For it is within houses that we are our most intimate: naked, raw, vulnerable and honest. It is within houses that we are our most opinionated: yelling,

On Kant, aesthetics, and consumption.

I’ve been bantering back and forth with designers about aesthetics in design, via this fascinating discussion. Someone suggested that if aesthetics is so important (which it is), then design students should study the philosophical origins of aesthetics. I completely agree (why isn’t this already a given in design

The shoes I wore to meet the architect....

were weathered white oxfords with robin’s egg blue wingtips. Shoes with a point-of-view. To design a house is an intimate, opinionated thing. For it is within houses that we are our most intimate: naked, raw, vulnerable and honest. It is within houses that we are our most opinionated: yelling,

On Kant, aesthetics, and consumption.

I’ve been bantering back and forth with designers about aesthetics in design, via this fascinating discussion. Someone suggested that if aesthetics is so important (which it is), then design students should study the philosophical origins of aesthetics. I completely agree (why isn’t this already a given in design

The shoes I wore to meet the architect....

were weathered white oxfords with robin’s egg blue wingtips. Shoes with a point-of-view. To design a house is an intimate, opinionated thing. For it is within houses that we are our most intimate: naked, raw, vulnerable and honest. It is within houses that we are our most opinionated: yelling,