Beautility Aesthetizen
I'm reading Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility. My favorite essay so far is called "Beautility: Good Design Has Utility." Tucker Viermeister defines beautility as, "the convergence of ethics and aesthetics." Products produced with sustainability and aesthetics in mind will tend to be healthier, because thinking about things visually, aesthetically, and holistically requires one to slow down and wake up. And products produced with the health of individuals and the planet in mind will tend to resonate more beautifully, their beauty being intrinsic and solid.
Counter to the Bauhaus aesthetic, here are some useless linguistic mosh-ups I came up with after reading about beautility:
Aesthetizen -- A citizen designer who is commited to making every day life more beautiful
Anthropomorphine -- The drug-like effect of relating to an animal who has homo-sapien like attributes
Armpersand -- Embodying the ampersand by putting your arm around your partner while doing something jointly
Bankrupture -- The adoption of banal terms invented by bankruptcy lawyers during the death of a formerly astute company
Bravote -- The support of women voters
Buh-Bi -- Saying goodbye to antiquated notions of sexual orientation
Departmentsartre -- The suicidal depression brought on by windowless cubicles
Dynamites -- Small groups of culture jammers who get under the skin of exploitative globalists
Errordition -- When smart people constantly correct each other
Exclamato -- The clam shells left over after eating slow-food style clam chowder with real clams in it
Headphonies -- Self absorbed ipod users
Husbandaid -- A generic, passionless husband used by a woman to feel whole
Jackash -- An environmentalist who leaves his smokes on the sidewalk
Pauvetry -- The poetry of poverty
Primerdo -- The first shit of the day
Semicolonoscopy -- The act of becoming more aware of the various uses of the semicolon in modern writing
Sergegains -- The political gains made by the French left



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