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Why is everything so ugly?
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
The current advice is when you buy something to already think about the resale value of the item. So this excludes all colors for everything. Black, white, gray everything.
Call it capitalism, call it competition, call it an optimization process or w/e but this is a common phenomenon. Whenever you have people trying to maximize some value they'll copy the strategy they view as most successful and other factors take a back seat. Maximizing the resale value of a home involves making it appeal to the largest number of people. Adding character risks lowering demand by appealing to niche mar…
I see it as an “iphonification” of industrial design and architecture. White cars became trendy in the early 2010s, after the white iPhone 4. Every item that wants to be perceived as a quality one is targeting that minimalistic, uncluttered, quirk-free look.
Re: Why is everything so ugly?
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Millennials in America apparently actually like the monotone look; it’s not just the resale thing. The process of making the house more bland for resale used to be called ‘beige-ing‘ by realtors (estate agents?) in the US; it’s not new, but it wasn’t always white and gray.
Pretty sure it’s embraced by Millenials. Kids toys and room decorations used to be vivid bright colors, and now they are a sea of beige highlighted with very faint pastal colors if they have color at all. https://www.crateandbarrel.com/kids/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/hot-new-baby-gear-is-sad-beige-...
That second one looks like a sanitarium for babies.
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#94Contrast it with beautiful areas like the Amalfi Coast or any old town in the Mediterranean. They have color and trees. The advent of concrete, specifically Portland cement, brought on the gray brutalism. Builders would rather leave the stark concrete raw than color it.
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#95I see quality building as a materials problem. I'm little surprised at the number of comments promoting that color is tied to quality.
I see color generally as the least significant feature of design. There are situation where color becomes important to communicate ideas. These moments I see as design details. I don't see them generally as intrinsic to design.
Mosts of the factors I see discussed in this thread are more related to mass manufacturing and trying to guess what people want.
Everything is ugly becuase few people take personal responsibility in making the world better.
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#96Oh man. There is this building in the city where I live. It's SO uncompromisngly gray and ugly that sometimes I think maybe it's actually a parody of this particular style. It kind of looks like a prison from the outside too... but it's actually condos! I hate it so much that I love it. :) Anyway here's a great photo of it I found on Google: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipMKvYH4OHFU5o4gZlSZ...
Wow you weren’t kidding. Looks like a sheet metal factory.
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#97Why do communists build brutalist buildings? I don’t think the recent trend in abandoning aesthetics is accidental.
Brutalism and communism are what happens when people pretend that human nature doesn’t exist.
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#98[flagged]
> Because the elites want to demoralise us Yeah no. The "elites" want profit, that's why we turned every part of the planet that we don't use for agriculture into concrete car scapes. Or Something. > advertisements with unattractive people practically didn't exist ten years ago. Now we are constantly bombarded with them incel vibes here. This is so hilariously stupid that it prevents me from being tempted to flag you…
What's stupid, that there are many more unattractive people in advertisements today that ten years ago? You may disagree if you want but I don't see how that observation is "stupid". No idea what incel vibes means...
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#99I just wanted to echo the gray frustration here. I went to buy vinyl flooring (I can't afford hardwood) and the sheer amount of inexplicably "grey wood" planks was staggering. Why! Like, it's as if some alien only saw wood in an episode of I Love Lucy and wanted to replicate it.
I thought this grey decor trend was a British phenomenon - glad it's not just us!
No, you've infected the rest of us as well. Congrats!
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#100A whole article about ugly things with no pictures of them?
It's even weirder than that — the movie that is mentioned, "Army Soldier II" is not coming up in my searches. Still, to this point: > Such bad lighting — and such large portions! We exit the movie theater to a bright realization: our films are exactly as overlit as our reality. As our environment has become blander, it has also become more legible — too legible. That’s a shame, because many products of the new ugline…
I think it is a reference to "Red Notice 2"