MINIMALISSIMO EDITED
This monthly edition of the Minimalissimo Newsletter is supported by aprile, the hanging chair
Hello everyone — Manu here, writing in a few days later than usual. Life’s been quite busy lately and finding time to take care of everything on the to-do list has proven to be quite the challenge.
A week or so ago I was listening to a podcast—it was right after the news about the OpenAI and Jony Ive deal—and in there they were talking about design, specifically the Jobs/Ive era aesthetics. And in that discussion they made an interesting point: Ive’s style is now everybody’s style.
Now, we can debate if that’s true or not, and we can also debate the value of Ive’s style—his pursuit of thinner and thinner devices was misguided imo—but it’s certainly true that a specific style is not everywhere. Another point they made —which I find even more interesting—is that that particular style has been around for long enough to have an entire generation of designers who have grown up entirely immersed in that style. For them, this design language is the norm so it’s only natural to expect them to try to go in different directions and leave the brushed aluminium aesthetics behind.
And that made me wonder if we’re about to see the “end” of a certain type of minimalism. I’m personally incredibly border by the whole AI-ification of everything but the evolution of physical devices is incredibly fascinating and I very much look forward to seeing what the future will bring.
What we found
Center Center by String Furniture
Extruded Lounge Chair by Vincent Laine
House in Ajina by Kazunori Fujimoto
FFF Uniform Tee
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