A classic poster depicting the <n>Milky Way</n> galaxy.

Taste is the ability to identify quality. To understand quality we need to look critically at: materials that are fit for purpose, ergonomy that considers audience needs, effective use of affordances, usability, accessibility, harmonic color choices, aesthetic choices that elicit emotion, intentional visual hierarchy — amongst others. Taste is in the observer, quality is in the object. The concept of taste becomes more productive when framed objectively around quality, and in ways that are measurable or at least comparable.

An excerpt titled <n>How To Love Better</n> from <n>Molly Burford</n>'s book <n>Moments to Hold Close</n>.

A scene from the film <n>Kiki's Delivery Service</n> (1989), directed by <n>Hayao Miyazaki</n> for <n>Studio Ghibli</n>.

Surreal landscape photograph taken in Idaho by <n>Benjamin Everett</n>.

<n>Ikigai</n> diagram adapted for <n>Future Earth</n>.

Cover art for <n>The Radio Dept.</n>'s 2002 album <n>You're Lookin' at My Guy</n>.

A still from the <n>Moomin</n> series, created by <n>Tove Jansson</n>.

The "Life Paths" illustration by <n>Tim Urban</n> of <n>Wait But Why</n>.

"I would recognize you in total darkness. Were you mute and I deaf. I would recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star is the sky burn out into oblivion."

A garden is not an object, but a process.

Every human either adds to or subtracts from the happiness of those with whom he or she comes in contact.

A quote by <n>F. Scott Fitzgerald</n>, handwritten by <n>Jenny</n> for <n>whitepaperquotes</n>.

“When you love someone, you can’t just tell them,” she said. “What do you mean?” her friend asked.

“If you say ‘I love you’, how are they supposed to understand? It’s like trying to comprehend the universe.

You have to show them quietly. A coffee. An extra day off. Room to stand under the same umbrella.

Take the universe apart and give them the stars.”