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A List Apart: In Defense of Eye Candy

Longish, but a good read. Explains the concept of affordance, something I know of conceptually, but was never able to find a word for.

Also begs the question of why the default personality of mostly anything Japanese is automatically kawaii.

My guess is that the national consciousness was propelled towards this extreme end of the emotional spectrum after the horror and goriness* that was WWII. Blood, war, guts = bad. Soft, fluffy, huggable = good.

Ack. i just reduced the entire Japanese aesthetic to a pillow. or a marshmallow.

And then there’s the wonderfully minimalist, Bauhausian* Muji. How inconvenient. Damn.

/hides in a corner and eats dirt.