Some of this is dispiriting, some of it is functional (complying with building codes, making more efficient cars), but I like the international coffee shop aesthetic! It's made it so one can reliably find pretty good coffee anywhere just by looking at the design of the shop.
The age of average — Alex Murrell
In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each piece was intended to be a unique a colla
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