Metadata
- Author: Alex Murrell
- Full Title:: The age of average (encore)
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average
- Finished date:: 2024-12-14
Highlights
“In nearly every country all people really wanted was a landscape with a few figures around, animals in the foreground, mainly blue.” Despite soliciting the opinions of over 11,000 people, from 11 different countries, each of the paintings looked almost exactly the same. (View Highlight)
We like to think that we are individuals, but we are much more alike that we wish to admit. (View Highlight)
Schwulst had identified an AirBnB design aesthetic that had organically emerged and was quickly spreading through the platform’s properties. White walls. Raw wood. Nespresso machines. Eames chairs. Bare brick. Open shelving. Edison bulbs. The style combines the rough-hewn rawness of industrialism with the elegant minimalism of mid-century design. (View Highlight)
(It’s known as the Brooklyn Look, or according to the journalist Kyle Chayka, AirSpace: (View Highlight)
meant to provide familiar, comforting surroundings for a wealthy, mobile elite, who want to feel like they’re visiting somewhere “authentic” while they travel, but who actually just crave more of the same (View Highlight)
According to data shared by Jökull Solberg, around 40% of cars sold in 1996 were monochromatic (black, white, silver or grey). 20 years later that figure had increased to 80%. (View Highlight)
Many celebrities and influencers had started to resemble each other. (View Highlight)
the rising accessibility of beauty treatments such as Botox and fillers: (View Highlight)
Courtois’ series perfectly illustrates how, in the 21st Century, every genre of film sticks to a relatively narrow set of clichés, codes and conventions that promoters slavishly abide by. (View Highlight)
(“If you’ve ever wondered why every poster and every trailer and every TV spot looks exactly the same, it’s because of testing. It’s because anything interesting scores poorly and gets kicked out. (View Highlight)
“Until the year 2000, about 25% of top-grossing movies were prequels, sequels, spinoffs, remakes, reboots, or cinematic universe expansions. Since 2010, it’s been over 50% ever year. In recent years, it’s been close to 100%.” (View Highlight)
New highlights added 2024-12-15
designers use the same online platforms, draw inspiration from the same sorts of imagery and, in turn, create broadly the same types of adverts. (View Highlight)