Donghan, Xiguai, Zhonggui, Beiqi, Nanji; have you fought for anyone in your life?

In March, we answered the essence of Chinese pastoral aestheticism that was mocked by the masses in "From the Wandering Earth, Coconut Tree, Alita to the country's love, is there any salvation after the Chinese people's aesthetic is totally different?" Made in China lacks aesthetic power.

In April, we further concretized the lack of aesthetic power made in China in "Paradox of Cheap Design: Consumer Aesthetic Power and Design Discourse Power"-which directly led to the lack of design discourse power of our designers.

In May, we once again dismantled the consequences of the designer's lack of voice in "Over-design: Not completely useless, but enough is enough"-overdesigning products, technologies and creativity.

At this point, we have deviated further and further from the mainstream aesthetic.

Of course, beauty has objective elements and can be quantified and hyped and produced; but it is more often a rather subjective "individual feeling", especially at present, there are at least two different voices in everything: one is that it is good enough to follow blindly, and the other is that its flaws are unbearable.

And this also leads to a thing in addition to "beauty or ugliness" is likely to have a "third form"-mystery, it has the physiological characteristics of "poisoning.

So, what is "fan"?

(1)
Han
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Beauty is justice, adoration is truth; this sentence must be opposed by no one.

However, it is difficult to define the state of "Han". It is not beautiful at all and has a certain distance from Meng. However, it is not enough to say that it is ugly or to scold it as rigid. The above is the "baby Trump" balloon. The root cause of its "popularity" is political elements, a silent protest and ridicule.

The above-mentioned middle-aged "social animal" called Satoshi Yamamoto with Mediterranean and square glasses is the most popular clay toy work of 45-year-old Japanese toy artist Yukinori Dehara.

It is not famous because of how delicate the clay doll itself is, but because Uncle Dehara gives it a neurotic image of "cute in embarrassment and crazy in decadence.

Today, on the contrary, we need this "straightforward" silly attack on poison to obtain a sense of healing.

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Weird
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On Monday night, many people must have been swept by Uniqlo KAWS's joint "zombie siege.

Perhaps, some people are ready to move because of the high price of the 0.116 billion of "THE KAWS ALBUM", but they may not care about the difference between "X X" on the face and on the top of the head?

Coincidentally, the "Transforming Balloon Outfits" balloon fashion exhibited by Norwegian designer FredrikTj randsen at the Central St. Martin's BA fashion show last weekend was more like a "strange show".

Just as we can't understand the popularity of KAWS, we also can't understand the brains of Transforming Balloon Outfits, why does such an incomprehensible design have such a big "attention"?

(3)
Expensive
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Above, we mentioned that since Apple's strategy tilted towards mobile phones and Cook began to use his crooked brains on Apple Watch again. The Mac was almost beaten into the cold palace, only to have a lucky visit when I think about it occasionally.

This is not true. Apple's "trash cans" have been alone for six years, but they are still unable to escape the tragedy of being dragged into the water by the "grater.

If you haven't felt the fear of being dominated by "garbage cans" in 2013, do you want to know about the 2019 grater?

Of course, is that nearly $1,000 monitor stand because it has more Apple backstage?

Mac Pro is a performance beast, there is no doubt about it.

But this unaesthetic bracket design, dense back screen structure and exaggerated heat dissipation holes are really not advanced at all.

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Qi
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The figurative ceramic ware created by London artist Claire Partington is mainly inspired by European applied art and design styles since the 17th century.

The movable replacement of human and animal heads in his works, this local change of creation method is quite convergent, showing the variable "human nature" and "animal nature" of the works in a limited space ".

In this year's Met Gala with Camp style as its theme, Flash Ezra Miller overshadowed Lady Gaga's limelight with seven eyes and big red lips.

This kind of "magic" shape is different from the common "enchanting extravagance". It can not be seen directly at the same time, but it is unforgettable.

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Thriller
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Japanese sculptor Yoshitoshi Kanemaki captured the emotional complexity of young people in his three-dimensional portrait sculpture. He wanted to use a sculpture to express all the joys and sorrows of young women.

Mixed media artists QimmyShimmy use polymer clay to blend fantasy and reality in interesting and often disturbing ways to create sugary foods for baby images. Try to find the balance between sweetness and horror.

Kanemaki the expressive force of focusing on emotions is already disturbing, QimmyShimmy it is a bit creepy to provoke the boundary between sweetness and terror with a surrealist expression.

At this point, is it more difficult for us to judge whether this "five elements of mystery"-silly strange and strange, beautiful or ugly?

But what we can be sure of is that a good product must have at least one peak in terms of essence (form), qi (function) and god (connotation), and there is no absolute short board in other aspects.



PS: Some materials come from @ core77 @ voicerme @ thisiscolossal