Famously, the initial resistance by many people to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was primarily caused by a lack of familiarity with its minimalist, abstract design.
Similar resistance was experienced by Pablo Picasso with his Cubist works, Gustave Eiffel with the Eiffel Tower, Frank Lloyd Wright with the Guggenheim Museum, and many others whose works are today widely accepted as brilliant and beautiful.
Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell & Kritina Holden
One way or another, we’re all conspicuous consumers. We use purchases to flaunt our wealth. We buy things not so much for purely personal enjoyment as for showing off or keeping up with the Joneses.
An professor of economics and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University.
It is a known condition that when you begin to pay attention to something you have never really looked at before you will begin to see it everywhere. You eventually begin to feel as if the thing is out to find you, instead of the other way around.
Canadian conceptual artist and author of several bestselling books including How to be an Explorer of the World - The Portable Life/Art Museum.
For new products and services to stand a chance, they can’t just be better, they must be nine times better.
Author of books on technology, psychology and business whose writings appear in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today.
People do judge books by their covers, internet sites by their first pages, and buildings by their lobbies.
The Director of Design at Stuff Creators Design in Houston and author of the best-selling design book, Universal Principles of Design.
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