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The more I approach tweeting as a (v. kitschy) art form, the more fun I have with it.

@mwiik

Jun 15, 2020

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@Triquetrea

Kitsch is fine for practicing with; later you might strive for beauty

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@mwiik

Jun 12, 2020

One of my favorite design essays "Learning to See", from 2013

ia.net/topics/learnin I'm no graphical artist so I work with what I have, such as images & emojis. This is part of my effort to advance Twitter as an art form, or #TWAAAF

Bonus: includes "Fingerspitzengefühl"

'The above chart also shows why I dislike the expression “minimal design”. If you take the expression “minimal design” literally, and just do what is absolutely necessary, you end up in the Bold quadrant.

But you want to be in the Beautiful quadrant. How do you get there? Usually you move from the center to the upper left into Bold. Because first of all you need to make it work. Once you are there, you need to move to the right. How do you get from Bold to Beautiful?

You don’t get there with cosmetics, you get there by taking care of the details, by polishing and refining what you have. This is ultimately a matter of trained taste, or what German speakers call Fingerspitzengefühl (literally, “finger-tip-feeling”).'

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'I don’t know of a more beautiful illustration of Fingerspitzengefühl than this iconic portrait of the typographer Jan Tschichold.'

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Hm. I think I like BOLDNESS better.

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(Am now wondering if I am doing some shadow transversal by going for kitsch rather than BOLDNESS.)

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Actually, yes, that's exactly it. Takk skal du ha!

11:42 AM · Jun 15, 2020Twitter Web App