Thus, when Europe came to caffeine-induced rebellion in 1848 all roads in Mitteleuropa led to America and each man, each woman became her own proprietor in a great good place of the imagination. There's more than one bean, one psychotrope, that delivers us unto our selves. Corduroy's Coffeehouse is one such deliverance. American rebellion engendered, and perhaps even required, simplicity in design to throw off the feudal excesses and superstitions of the past. So does our current epoch.
Simple design is required when the tools of information are greater than ever before.
No, hardly at all. Any place you rest your hat is a home now. Baroque design offends because freedom creates circumspection in a wise man. Inalienable rights imply inalienable responsibilities. Today's art on the Web is poetic and omnivorous and a page requires considerate application of design.