non-utilitarian

A designer who claims that his work has been copied must show that his design provides "a unique, distinguishable, non-trivial and non-utilitarian variation over prior designs."

Innovative Design Protection And Piracy Prevention Act Would Prevent Knockoffs For At Least Three Years 2010

Nonetheless, people like to value the non-utilitarian worth that we invest into objects.

Learning More About the Preservation and Utilization of Historical Documents The_Lex 2010

The aesthetic motive is very feeble in a lot of writers, but even a pamphleteer or writer of textbooks will have pet words and phrases which appeal to him for non-utilitarian reasons; or he may feel strongly about typography, width of margins, etc.

I Love Orwell 2008

A designer who claims that his work has been copied must show that his design provides "a unique, distinguishable, non-trivial and non-utilitarian variation over prior designs."

Innovative Design Protection And Piracy Prevention Act Would Prevent Knockoffs For At Least Three Years 2010

Nonetheless, people like to value the non-utilitarian worth that we invest into objects.

Archive 2010-01-01 The_Lex 2010

The aesthetic motive is very feeble in a lot of writers, but even a pamphleteer or writer of textbooks will have pet words and phrases which appeal to him for non-utilitarian reasons; or he may feel strongly about typography, width of margins, etc.

SeeLight: 2008

I'm just using it differently at the moment, using it as "someone who makes non-utilitarian objects we feel strongly about for no discernible reason".

To all the whining starving artists out there (revised) EAGEAGEAG 2009

You might try some non-utilitarian argument for free immigration, like freedom of movement or something.

How Markets Value the Welfare of the Poor: Follow-up to A Non-Socratic Dialogue, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

There is no doubt that at the outset what is involved is a pleasurable and purely aesthetic satisfaction in the non-utilitarian play with sounds.

Archive 2009-06-01 Eric Dickens 2009

This is one area of partial overlap with non-utilitarian sources of value.

Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Wetlands and Water~ Wetlands and Water~ Ecosystems and Human Well-being 2008