You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other color–because you don’t want to offend anybody. But by definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it. So I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. – Tibor Kalman, 1996

I lifted the Tibor quote from a design blog called unbeige. Upon first glance, the blog appears to be (perhaps ironically?) inoffensive and not at all quirky, insane or unpredictable.