Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter Three:Systems and Foundations (section)

===Aesthetics:===
Style among the Artificers is eclectic. Older, more traditional members favor mechanical styles, whether spotless brass or dirty, oil-stained gears. Many are also fond of electricity and explosives, but their focus is typically on structure and design, rather than power. Whether elegantly-worked metal or crude plastic, Artificers' wonders look they were put together fast, hard, and with superhuman skill and precision.

The new Makers, drawn from an entirely different society, aim for a raw, authentic look, and in the worst parts of the world, that means building with (for lack of a better word) trash. Katastrofic weapons made of broken bottles and battery acid, wonders of Skafoi carved from the burned-out hulks of abandoned automobiles carried on the backs of metal centipedes, forbidden automata cobbled together from old Nintendos and stray dogs; whatever is in reach is a potential ingredient. More than that, many Artificers delight in deliberately making their wonders difficult to produce (and recreate): why build a wonder with the best biomedical waste when you can drag organic filth from sewers and poisoned wetlands? Of all the foundations, the Artificers are the most keenly aware of their own aesthetic sense. Young Artificers are a profoundly self-aware group; they preen, they strut, and they sneer at anything that doesn't meet their narrow definitions of "New Maker," and they spend their time trying to disgust and outrage their peers without themselves being shocked. Other foundations would worry if it weren't all so juvenile, little more than the super-scientist equivalent of kids sending one-another pictures of dead celebrities while complaining that they were sick of your favorite band (or in this case, engineer) before he sold out and got popular.