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Repetition is the silent force that makes everything ordinary. It clutters our spaces, our objects, our time, stripping them of their ability to resonate, to linger. When everything looks the same, when everything does the same thing, the extraordinary dissolves into a monotony. These patterns do not whisper, they drone—flattening experience into the mechanical rhythm of sameness. The world becomes noise.
Memory does not live in repetition. It thrives in rupture, in the singular.
We’ve perfected this. Today, repetition is disguised as intention. Minimalism, sustainability—they start as ideas, but in their repetition, in their overuse, they rot. Minimalism becomes sterility. Sustainability becomes an empty badge. Meaning is eroded in the tide of replication.
This is the paradox of repetition: what begins as powerful ends as noise. A bold idea, repeated, becomes less than its message, a pale echo of its origin. This is why time under the weight of repetition feels like an algorithm—objective, standardized, and lifeless. Moments are not lived; they are processed.
To reject repetition is to reject this tyranny of ordinariness. It is to embrace the unfamiliar, the unsettling, the singular. It is to design not for the assembly line but for the rupture, for the memory, for the human. We must break the loop. We must destroy the comfort of repetition before it destroys us.
by Kash Debu
“The Reform of Product Design is a call to liberate designers from trends that oppress true creativity. Only the design community, those who live and breathe design, has the authority to innovate and create, free from external impositions. This reform is a structural shift, redistributing power, economic growth, and political change, breaking free from commercial pressures and the “less is more” mantra. It’s about empowering designers to shape their own legacy, based on authenticity and freedom.
This movement is an act of historical courage, paving the way for a new future of design, where true creativity is recognized and exploited no longer.”
Kash Debu 2025
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Kash Debu / KASH Magazine