Eric has a new essay, “No Taste,” that has been published on Jarrett Fuller’s Scratching the Surface website today that interrogates the premise of “good taste” in design and how it might make our work better but our lives worse. He writes, “I often tell people in jest that design is a sickness, but the joke gets less funny as the years go on. My designer antennae aren’t protecting me from harm. They’re insulating me from potential pleasure, learning, even wisdom. And making me insufferable to be around, to boot. Why would I want that?” Good question…
