![]() This principle describes the feeling of surprise and a bit of amazement when one realizes they can have freedom from the conventional. Escape from daily routine or the ordinary. Photographers and designers can surely think of many ways to visually imply more by not showing the whole, that is, showing more by showing less.ĭatsuzoku (脱俗) Freedom from habit or formula. A Japanese garden, for example, can be said to be a collection of subtleties and symbolic elements. Yugen (幽玄)Profundity or suggestion rather than revelation. It is not a raw nature as such but one with more purpose and intention. This is a reminder that design is not an accident, even when we are trying to create a natural-feeling environment. Ironically, the spontaneous nature of the Japanese garden that the viewer perceives is not accidental. An absence of pretense or artificiality, full creative intent unforced. The term is sometimes used today to describe something cool but beautifully minimalist, including technology and some consumer products. Direct and simple way, without being flashy. Shibui/Shibumi (渋味)Beautiful by being understated, or by being precisely what it was meant to be and not elaborated upon. This is a dynamic beauty that attracts and engages. Nature itself is full of beauty and harmonious relationships that are asymmetrical yet balanced. ![]() Try looking for (or creating) beauty in balanced asymmetry. In graphic design too asymmetrical balance is a dynamic, beautiful thing. The enso ("Zen circle") in brush painting, for example, is often drawn as an incomplete circle, symbolizing the imperfection that is part of existence. The idea of controlling balance in a composition via irregularity and asymmetry is a central tenet of the Zen aesthetic. ![]() Reminds us to think not in terms of decoration but in terms of clarity, a kind of clarity that may be achieved through omission or exclusion of the non-essential.įukinsei (不均整) Asymmetry or irregularity. Things are expressed in a plain, simple, natural manner. Kanso (簡素)Simplicity or elimination of clutter. Seven principles for changing your perception ![]() Perhaps they will stimulate your creativity or get you thinking in a new way about your own design-related challenges. Below are just seven design-related principles (there are more) that govern the aesthetics of the Japanese garden and other art forms in Japan. Thankfully, Patrick Lennox Tierney (a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun in 2007) has a few short essays elaborating on the concepts. The principles are interconnected and overlap it's not possible to simply put the ideas in separate boxes. ![]() The principles of Zen aesthetics found in the art of the traditional Japanese garden, for example, have many lessons for us, though they are unknown to most people. Beginning to think about design by exploring the tenets of the Zen aesthetic may not be an example of Lateral Thinking in the strict sense, but doing so is a good exercise in stretching ourselves and really beginning to think differently about visuals and design in our everyday professional lives. "Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perception," says de Bono. Exposing ourselves to traditional Japanese aesthetic ideas - notions that may seem quite foreign to most of us - is a good exercise in lateral thinking, a term coined by Edward de Bono in 1967. ![]()
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