In response to my “Keep calm and make ugly art” post, @duaneking sent me this great quote from designer Paula Scher on trends:

If you look through design history and you see something that looks really radical, that’s what you’re going to be doing now. If you think that’s nice, that’s what you’ve already been doing. If you think it’s tired, that’s what you were doing five years ago. But if you think it’s ugly, that’s what you’re going to be doing in five years.

I love this idea and it reminds me: My favorite character in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is The Ugly. Tuco’s not boring and he’s not evil. He’s not tragic, he’s comic. He’s not heroic, he’s picaresque. He might not win, but he will survive…