Rhetorical Analysis Of Richard Seymour's TED Talk

“Do we actually think beauty, or do we feel it?” That’s how Richard Seymour commenced his TED talk which was about the Interpretation of beauty from different perspectives in addition to the numerous manners human beings perceive beauty. Richard Seymour was educated as a graphics designer at the St Marine central school for art and design and in the royal college of arts in London (Design Indaba, 2013). According to design Indaba magazine he is one of Europe’s best known products designer. In October, 2011, Seymour gave a TED talk entitled “how beauty feels”. In this talk, Seymour’s purpose was to deliver a message about how beauty feels from diverse frames of reference. In addition, he adopted an emotional tone mixed with an imagery one to appeal to audiences from different ages, genders and classes but they share something in common which is the hilarity of listening to a talk. Toward the end of the talk, He argues that beauty ought to be felt before being thought of and he used a positive altitude in addition to several rhetorical strategies to express his thoughts although his attempt to appeal to audiences’ emotions dwindled his …show more content…
Consequently, some of the audiences did not take his talk as credible as it should be. However, the distances were shorten between him and the audience meaning that the talk was kind of from a friend to another instead of being from an expert to a student. He showed his credibility in his career as a designer when he used an image of F1 MV Agusta motorcycle while asking people to feel the beauty of its design. Although the audience had a diverse opinions, they came to an agreement with Seymour when it came to a design because that’s what he’s expert in. In addition, Seymour convinced the audience that a certain water bottle was perfectly designed and surprisingly, they were convinced because of the credibility he has when it comes to