{"id":311710,"date":"2021-04-15T09:40:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=311710"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:07:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:07:52","slug":"depressing-design-vs-uplifting-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/15\/depressing-design-vs-uplifting-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Depressing Design vs Uplifting Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I cannot say for certain that great design uplifts, but I can certainly say that ugly design depresses us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t surround yourself with an ugly view<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The worst decision I have made semi-recently:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Signing a lease on an apartment with an ugly view.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why? Every time I see the view outside of my kitchen window when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m having my morning coffee it depresses me with the ugliness. A <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/05\/physiological-depression\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"240677\">physiological depression<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What makes a certain design ugly?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subjective \u00e2\u20ac\u201d proportions. I hate most car designs\u00e2\u20ac\u201d either too round, unaesthetic, ugly colors, and not stylish. Fortunately most cars now in 2021 are far more aesthetically well designed (Hyundai, Genesis, Kia, BMW, Lexus, Toyota, Honda) all pretty much look good now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ugly clothing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I wear affects my mood. Once again, very subjective here. I hate certain colors, textures, and anything that smells \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vintage\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and old. I like clean, crisp, vibrant, or just all black everything. I prefer a more futuristic and forward-facing design. Nike sneakers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nike.com\/nikelab\">NIKELAB<\/a>), or even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yeezysupply.com\">YEEZY<\/a> sneakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Camera design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the most part, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not a huge fan of Fujifilm camera designs (I feel the X100-series cameras try too hard to be faux Leica rangefinder cameras), although I like the more genuine XT-series designs for Fujifilm cameras (more honest design). I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not a huge fan of any Leica camera which isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t an M camera (I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like the SL, or the Q\u00e2\u20ac\u201d which look\/are like Lumix hybrid cameras). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panasonic.com\/global\/consumer\/lumix.html\">Lumix<\/a> cameras as very well designed, proportioned and functional (best UI\/UX in cameras). <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/31\/why-i-love-ricoh-gr-iii-2\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"309348\">RICOH GR<\/a> and Pentax cameras (<a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/10\/pentax-645z-digital-medium-format-x-vsco\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"102943\">Pentax 645Z<\/a>) are also great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In terms of the aesthetics of a camera, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to be the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153most beautiful\u00e2\u20ac\u009d design (Leica M), it just needs to not <em>offend<\/em> you, or not seem ugly to you! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-design-thoughts\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/design\/\">DESIGN THOUGHTS<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1242\" height=\"915\" data-attachment-id=\"308983\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/4accc122-d0a6-499a-b20a-76cfd2563461\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/4ACCC122-D0A6-499A-B20A-76CFD2563461.jpeg?fit=1242%2C915&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1242,915\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hand red black macro ERIC KIM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/4ACCC122-D0A6-499A-B20A-76CFD2563461.jpeg?fit=1242%2C915&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/4ACCC122-D0A6-499A-B20A-76CFD2563461.jpeg?resize=1242%2C915&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"hand red black macro ERIC KIM\" class=\"wp-image-308983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/4ACCC122-D0A6-499A-B20A-76CFD2563461.jpeg?w=1242&amp;ssl=1 1242w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/4ACCC122-D0A6-499A-B20A-76CFD2563461.jpeg?resize=768%2C566&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/4ACCC122-D0A6-499A-B20A-76CFD2563461.jpeg?resize=920%2C678&amp;ssl=1 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/15\/depressing-design-vs-uplifting-design\/\">Depressing Design vs Uplifting Design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/15\/the-best-design-towards-what-ends\/\">The Best Design Towards What Ends?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/09\/exciting-or-boring-design\/\">Exciting or Boring Design?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/01\/on-design-photography\/\">On Design &amp; Photography<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/01\/a-designer-desires-to-design-and-create-things\/\">A Designer Desires to Design and Create Things!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/31\/delightful-technology-and-design\/\">Delightful Technology and Design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/30\/dynamic-aesthetics\/\">Dynamic Aesthetics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/28\/design-vs-brand-prestige\/\">Design vs Brand Prestige<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/27\/classic-proportions-modern-design\/\">Classic Proportions, Modern Design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/25\/why-does-design-matter\/\">Why Does Design Matter?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/22\/the-best-design\/\">The Best Design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/14\/muscular-design\/\">MUSCULAR DESIGN.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/camera-design\">Camera Design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/watches\/\">Watch Design<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot say for certain that great design uplifts, but I can certainly say that ugly design depresses us:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DFCF0A0A-F2F7-41A1-8D75-12F144D6DA67.jpeg?fit=1668%2C1074&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311710"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311738,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311710\/revisions\/311738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}