The commodification of ugly

by | Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Noah, one of the students in my design doctoral seminar sent me this video by Ze Frank.

Check it out.


Topics related to this post: Art | Creativity | Design | Evolution | Fun | Good | Bad Design | Representation | Technology | Video

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