The most fundamental form which can be expressed is the line. The best definition that I’ve heard for how to describe the line is from the great painter Paul Klee who wrote, “a line is a point out for a walk.” A point is a term used in art to refer to a specific location in space which has no length, width, or breadth, and is useful only in concept for indicating a place within a piece. The natural progression of the point is the line which would form if you were to trace a point as it moved. Now it is important to say here that the line is purely abstract, there is no such thing as line in nature, there is nothing that you can find which has no width or breadth, but only width. The abstraction of the line, however, is convenient for the artist to be able to talk about the rest of a piece. Now enough philosophy, on to the practical.

Welcome to The New Aesthetic.  I’m a rather eclectic person and I created this blog to do a couple of things. First, I want to share the things that inspire me. Second, I wanted to take a new approach to education in design. I’ve been through many of the well regarded sites that exist online for teaching design and the tools to do it. The majority of sites take the approach: “here is the way to achieve this effect in this program.” The direct nature of this approach is fantastic if you are trying to do what is being done, and I have a lot of respect for the people producing those works. That being said, the problem that is rarely addressed in the the standard blogroll is the ‘why’.