The Long Conversation: Art and Design Movements Through Time

No style appears from nowhere. The Bauhaus answered the Arts and Crafts movement, Memphis mocked modernism, and flat design rejected skeuomorphism. This is a journey through those movements, from cave walls and temple carvings to the Swiss grid and today's screens, tracing how each generation of makers replied to the one before.

Every post here starts as my own thinking. AI just helps me tidy the edges.

The first notes in this series are on their way.

The best work happens when

two people in the room refuse to settle