22.05, Wednesday 2 Apr 2003

Arts and Crafts as a design aesthetic [thanks Matt Jones]: "Ideals: Simplicity, honesty (it is what it looks like), utility (form should follow function, but it also needs to feed the soul), organic, craftsmanship (includes innovation within convention), harmony (a simplified and unified environment). Used structural ornamentation - using joists and joints exposed. Wonders out loud how we could do that with web sites. Treat compositions of a web site as building on a series of harmonies". I like.