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You're being fooled (here's how to stop it)

7 days to train your eye. Everything else follows from that.

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Robbert Leusink
Jan 01, 2026
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You know something’s wrong with modern design.

You sense that older things had something we’ve lost.

But you can’t articulate what that ‘something’ is.

So you default to luxury brands, artist names: whatever’s trending.

You’re outsourcing your judgment to people who are just as blind as you are.

That ‘minimalist’ brand you follow is just borrowed aesthetic with no principles.

That heritage product you bought is commercialised nostalgia with none of the craft.

That revival building everyone calls beautiful is pastiche of forms without understanding the original.

Most people move through culture like tourists in a museum. They’re looking without seeing, liking without understanding, and buying without judging.

The Taste Sprint teaches you to see…

It’s not just art theory or design history. It contains 7 days of exercises that force your eyes to work.

Day 1: Analyse 3 designs. Articulate why one will be beautiful in 50 years and two will look dated.

Day 3: Examine building facades. Trace their line…

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