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This is apared-down, demystified overview of the mental operations involved withcreating things aesthetic, i.e., art, design, and the like.It is adisarmingly clearheaded and unsentimental look at the creative process by aneminent creator.The book'sphotographs and design serve as an example of what the creative process, at itsmost sophisticated, can yield.

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9781734914313

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"""Indeed, you could say that Koren has spearheaded the design equivalent of the slow food movement.""--The New York Times ""In a prominent spot near Square's welcome lobby stands a communal bookshelf. . . Most titles lining the shelves cover subjects you might expect at a high-flying tech startup. . . And then there are books placed on the shelf by [Twitter and Square co-founder Jack] Dorsey. He offers up Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers --an explication of the Japanese concept of serendipitous beauty."" -The Wall Street Journal"

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Leonard Koren, who trained as an artist and architect, was a founding member of The Los Angeles Fine Arts Squad, a wall-painting collective. In 1976 he created WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, an avant-garde publication seminal in the development of postmodern aesthetics. Koren has subsequently written numerous books about art, design, and aesthetics. among them are Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (the classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete), What Artists Do, and Musings of a Curious Aesthete.

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