Labor as Aesthetic: The Maker Movement Contextualized Through Its Relation to Craft, Art, and Industrialization

In the world of western design, functionalism has a long and rich history. While many would like to credit the emphasis we hold today on honesty, utility, and simplicity in design to Dieter Rams, those exact frameworks have been around since the late 1700s—when a sect of Quakers living in colonial New York collectively decided that ornament was sin.