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If the content cannot do its job free from embellishment then it is bad content and/or employs bad hierarchy or contrast. That is like saying if a product can'
by zaidf 13y ago
If the content cannot do its job free from embellishment then it is bad content and/or employs bad hierarchy or contrast.
That is like saying if a product can't sell itself without marketing, then it is a bad product. Such a claim assumes there is some universal definition of 'bad' and that if embellishment is needed to bring attention to an element, that its content must be bad.
If you are going to make the above claim, you might as well make a case for living in a black and white world where the colors and design are mostly used to embellish otherwise bad things.
- bjterry 13y agoNot to mention the fact that there are many people in this world who have become millionaires off bad content, so excoriating it isn't necessarily useful, depending on your goals.
- pfortuny 13y agoThe quote is the axiom of minimalism (one could say "dogma" by the way it is pushed on others): decoration is WRONG. Which seems to me awkward at the very least. Just read Feynman's lectures. He does not simply share content. He embellishes it. Or Knuth's books. Content is not enough for human beings. I prefer the Renaissance to modern architecture. It just feels more human.