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How can you have functional minimalism without aesthetic reality which reflects that? And if a minimalist aesthetic betrays functional minimalism, is it actuall
by yowlingcat 6y ago
How can you have functional minimalism without aesthetic reality which reflects that? And if a minimalist aesthetic betrays functional minimalism, is it actually aesthetically minimalist or is it merely generic? It is a clumsy perversion of language to conflate minimalist with generic when the two are different.
- p_l 6y agoEasily. You can have millions of Tupperware containers that look seemingly the same minimalist chic, you can also have few possessions that exhibit possibly insane amount of decoration while maintaining "just wipe it once across" dusting method, by simply having them painted. One tries for aesthetics of minimalism, the other one can be actually physically minimalist but not share that aesthetic at all.
- yowlingcat 6y agoBut that's my point. "Minimalist chic" is a misnomer because at least something is aesthetically there to belie the fact that the functionality is not actually minimalist. It's almost like an uncanny valley thing IMO.
- airstrike 6y agoI'm not saying "aesthetic minimalism" is proper nomenclature, just that people are solving for that particular aesthetic slice when they pick their designs by generically extracting features from "functional / real minimalism" as you correctly pointed out. I think we're arguing the same thing, you just did it much more eloquently.