Happy

“If you want to find people who are happy, really happy,” Michael Bierut writes in Design Observer, and really happy about design, you have to look in only one place: the letters column of Architectural Digest magazine.” Bierut looked back at the 33 letters to the editor printed in AD‘s last three issues. “Of the 33 letters, 33 of them are overwhelmingly, feverishly positive.”

For instance:

The May issue had me calling my doctor for oxygen. Never have I seen such artistic design as you presented in this issue of your publication. I applaud you for elevating my awareness of what a great artist can create, of what great people can demand of existence.

The rest is here.