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A trend seemed to be emerging which provided the impetus to forty interviews in total. A particularly memorable one was with a lecturer in Product Design at a university not far from London. She was a jeweller herself who had gravitated to the visual arts after discovering that she was dyslexic, and she spoke with animation about a project for pre-degree students to construct a hat from natural objects: “The boys’ hats were all highly constructed, all made with twigs and therefore more angular than those of the girls.
Alfred Tonnellé There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important. William James The burning question The journey into men and women’s visual tastes began one hot summer’s Sunday, after a heavy morning of classical landscapes at the Royal Academy gallery in London. The lure of seeing paintings that were brighter and lighter in mood took me to the Annual Exhibition of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours in the Mall, just down the road from Buckingham Palace.
Moreover, the implications would not stop at purchasing but would extend to all those situations in which visual experts sit in judgement on other people’s visual creations. Whether it was prestigious art and advertising competitions, art and design exams, hanging committees or even recruitment and promotion panels for designers, all could be affected by bias in people’s preferences. Of course, we would not be speaking here of conscious biases but of unconscious impulses, way beyond most people’s awareness.