Salon des Refusés
The Salon des Refusés, French for «exhibition of rejects», is generally an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, but the term is most famously used to refer to the Salon des Refusés of 1863. Edited by Jacob Heftmann; built on Small Victories.
“Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
—Pablo Picasso
“Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, anyone evaluating a brand new logo at first glance is — to paraphrase my partner Paula Scher — reviewing a three-act play based on what they see the moment the curtain goes up. Or, to put it differently, they think they’re judging a diving competition when in fact they're judging a swimming competition. The question isn’t what kind of splash you make. It’s how long you can keep your head above water. ”
—Michael Bierut
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.
—Brian Eno
