Resilient aesthetics

How to create aesthetically nourishing design products made for usage.

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Resilient aesthetics and resilient beauty are terms that immediately sound like oxymorons, as beauty and aesthetically pleasing experiences and objects tend to connote something fleeting, transient, and/or volatile. We are used to viewing beauty as something that fades, being synonymous with newness, youth…