DESIGN

ART….

ImitatingLIFE….

Imitating

What makes ART different

from DESIGN?

Design can aspire to be Art but can Art serve the functionality of design?

Or can functionality be disguised in

the aesthetics of Art?? FunctionFollowsForm

Form Follows Function

Formtion

The “marrying” of Function

with Form

FORMTION

Mother Nature is the divine designerperhaps we have to look to nature for inspiration-

Bio-mimicry?

Post-Modernist DesignReplacing objects of

byCreating objects

of______

Creating Design that makes a statement about…?

Desire

Need

PRODUCT DESIGN imitating Fashion

Design

FORMTION

Function FollowsForm

OrForm

Follows Function

OR IS IT A SYNERGY OF THE TWO?

1+ 1= 3The WHOLE is greater than the SUM of its parts

THE HOLE is greater than the SOME of its parts

Seeing the possibilities in things where to others there are none

FORM + FUNCTION= FORMTION

A Future for DESIGN orA Designed Future?

Are we taking design places or is design controlling us??

Concerns to address?-1) Sustainable design2) Usability of products3) Experience design4) Design to elevate

human consciousness-Post-Modern design:Questioning our very assumptions of howproducts should function:Should Products fit humans orHumans fit products?

Questioning our assumptions?

Its not where you take things FROM…It is where you take them __Jean-Luc GoDard

Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists ____Pablo Picasso

STEAL….?!!

TO…

An artist works with his hands,

his head

A labourer works with his hands

A craftsman works with his hands

and his head

…and his heart

You can find inspiration in anything

….and everything

Its all in the way we see thingsand we all see things differently

Find your muse…To light your fuse