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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
I don't get all this worry about how it looks. Is it really important? Surely most of you would agree that functionality and cost are critical, yes? If so, then everything else is minutia, yes? If it had to look like an Etch-a-Sketch to have all the functionality you wanted, wouldn't you rather it did so?
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Okay, I chose cars to display a visual sense of design because I thought a 'universal' symbol would reach you. I was wrong. Lets say I chose something closer to you. Lets say a comparison between Vivaldi's and Britney Spears' music, wouldn't you say a minimal decorum of esthetism is important? Wouldn't you want to carve out your ears if you were subjected to hours of confrontation with that kind of discrepancy in tastes? Being mostly visual, a bad composition turns me off in a big way, did you get a little feel of what I mean.
The design of the Kindle is purely 'functional' meant to simplify the job for the guy who built the molds, period. As a furniture builder and designer, my job has me purposefully looking for the grace of a sweeping curve, a soft shape, shade, a unity with environment. This constant search can not be turned off, it touches every thing I see.
Oh! I've got it! One who reads and craves only the best of poetry and happens to write it too, would he like the way I just wrote?