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Old 07-11-2010, 06:57 PM   #69
pierre shags
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non-objective language

"Aesthetic preferences are personal, of course" I said. Then used such non-objective language as: squatty, ugly, beautiful, & clean.

Design talk is mostly other words meaning "I like."

Pothole's vocabulary is of the same kind: smoothly and neatly, awkward looking slither ( I love "slither" sounds so menacing), lither and prettier (maybe what was needed was a lither slither), clever, unsubtle, Stunning, seamlessly, resolved, deft, elegantly, intellectually consistent (Wow. Really?), a bit lost and - right down to it - bad design.

Overdrive wrote of "compromises designers have to make" affecting design.
I admit the shutlines at the back of the 986 meet more cleanly. Although the trunk lid is the same dimension lengthwise on both cars, the width on the 987 is 1.75" (43mm) wider at outside/back of the lid. The better to get luggage in, I suppose.

The 986 spoiler is narrow and has unseemly proportions. But one man's golden ratio is another man's static design.
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