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If you have several elements to use on a page, putting them together in a cluster will automatically create a visual grouping, and aligning them on an axis – or an evenly-spaced grid system – will give the design a static, stable feeling.
The Principle of Hierarchy in Graphic Design
Jeremy Elliott
The name “Bikini Kill” was a reference to Bikini Atoll, the coral reef in the Marshall Islands where the US government tested nuclear weapons after forcibly repatriating inhabitants. The military, Hanna writes, “taped a picture of Rita Hayworth to the side of one of the bombs, an act against Hayworth’s will that left her known as a ‘bombshell.’ ”
Girl on Girl
Sophie Gilbert
The self-consciousness you experience when you seek too effortfully to be “more in the moment” is the mental discomfort of attempting to lift yourself up by your own bootstraps—to modify your relationship to the present moment in time, when in fact that moment in time is all that you are to begin with.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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