aesthetics of joy

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  Aesthetics of Joy is a blog and book-in-progress by Ingrid Fetell, exploring the intersection between design and positive emotion.
  
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• Recent Posts

  • Joy and death? The Merry Cemetery
  • The joy of swimming pools
  • The joy of solitude
  • Aesthetics of nature
  • The magic of illusions
  • AoJ on Core77
  • Abundant pattern, transcendent joy
  • Joyful commuting
  • Art, sexual selection, and renewal
  • Joyfully uninviting
  • Rainbow cake
  • Jumpology

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