Clojurians Log v2

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I have been bitten by the Bauhaus bug, currently amassing materials and books to get into 100-year old graphic design theory.

nice. My home town was the location of the “Hochschule für Gestaltung” where Otl Aicher and Max Bill continued the Bauhaus tradition. (Until those modern ideas where to modern for the conservatives and the school was shut down. :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

I live the design principles approach, like form follows function etc. So many good ideas and insights that carry over to 21st century software and UX design.

yeah, it was very influential. I do think some of the playfulness of the early Bauhaus experimentation was lost in the process of it turning into mainstream modernist design.

Basically, I find a lot of current web design boring and same’y, so I wanna explore the origins of the style instead.

The interesting thing for me as even Bauhaus is generally simplistic, for some reason I seldom find it boring.

Yes, I feel the same way.

But I’m also very simple to be pleased by asthetic proportions and simple geometric shapes.

Maybe my obsession with math and the “natural structure of things” kicks on. Some call it OCD but I’m to lazy for that.

Works by Kandinsky or Moholy-Nagy are incredibly simplistic, but the composition of those simple shapes and their colours make for an interesting balance

I think it’s the balancing act we enjoy, not the shapes themselves!

Anyway, I have a fascination with the Weimar Republic in general, so interest the Bauhaus is just another way to feed into that overall fascination.

Also Yves Klein’s work (“that blue painting”) is impressively simple and rich at the same time.

The Weimar Republic is a facinating time. A disruption and a good lesson about how chaotic social and political process can be.

Indeed

On a different note: TIL github discussions” https://github.com/Homebrew/discussions

Huh TIL

Not very discoverable, is it?

Oh wait, so it’s on a repo level, but they made a repo just for discussions… I see.

I vaguely rememer Gh having announced it.

Morning

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Morning

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Is functional works trying to get anyone else to move to Germany today?

yes

with a pretty weird animation

Not sure what to answer, given that I’m living here now for 40ish years :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

> In major tech hubs like Berlin or Hamburg, you can’t go wrong with only English skills. I think even in Berlin this is a bold claim.

@mjones the best place to ask would be in #jobs or #remote-jobs. It looks like spam here. Thx!

thank you for that !

@mjones it would be lovely if you would delete this then pls ☝️

done 🙂

Last time I was in Berlin you couldn't even get by with a Visa card 😅 I love Berlin though.

thx 🙂