Industrial Design - Page 9

faust · 03-03-2005

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Originally Posted by Arturo21

I like the first pic, although that style has been done millions of times....

Really?! That's the only company I've seen doing this, and I've done a lot of research on stereo equipment. If you can find others, post them, please, I'd love to see them

travolta · 03-03-2005

nyc dutch design events...
http://www.dutchdesignevents.com/ora...rt_events.html

travolta · 09-03-2005

really good design book--Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change-must read.

travolta · 14-03-2005

faust i definately like the "bose killers" better than that other monstrosity...

Arturo21 · 14-03-2005

Lol..I agree, I just didn't want to say.

Strawbutterb..I have so much to post! AAh! I look at lots of design magazines and say, "Oh, I gotta post that!" but never get to it..

I will soon, though

travolta · 14-03-2005

cool...i haven't checked out any design mags recently. do you have a subscription to any? anyways you should really check out that book i posted--its kinda like the handbook for industrial design-good stuff...

travolta · 21-03-2005

good article on droog

http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/021/droog.htm

Arturo21 · 21-03-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by travolta

cool...i haven't checked out any design mags recently. do you have a subscription to any? anyways you should really check out that book i posted--its kinda like the handbook for industrial design-good stuff...

I'm suscribed to Azure..isn't very good..I'm going to suscribe to surface and/or wallpaper. Wallpaper combines all my interests, although their fashion sections are ridiculous, just Gucci, Burberry, LV, and Prada..but I love their lifestyle section. I love surface because it's good a pretty good section on fashion and also deals with design and architecture.

travolta · 21-03-2005

also from the website:

DISH

Two pubes on a plate – what does this tell us about the work of women designers today? Perhaps girls do want to have fun but they want a lot more besides.
The cover of this book is cool, white and minimal. It consists of one picture: a white plate with two pubic hairs on it. This is a promising start. Turn the page and you are greeted with the word “Dish” written in that needlework style so favoured by prissy 19th-century middle England. This is even more promising.

Dish is a selection of recent work by 40 female industrial designers from across the globe. It may seem deeply unfashionable to produce a women-only line-up or even to dwell on inequality of the sexes at all, but the scarcity of women in design and architecture is so pronounced that desperate – even unfashionable – measures are called for.

The editor of this book, Julie Müller Stahl, proposes that this imbalance is due to the approach many women take to a career in the industry: unlike their male counterparts, their identities do not revolve around being “a designer”. They take on multiple roles, each of which retains potency and autonomy – roles such as mother, wife, designer, entrepreneur, artist and teacher. This wider identity matrix results in an approach that many manufacturers and design firms find difficult to contain and one that doesn’t fit nicely into the established economic framework.

Flipping through the designers’ short statements, I am struck by the similarity of outlook. Many of the designers want to collaborate with partners, create self-produced work (thus keeping control over the end product) and generate an emotional connection between the user and the object. They use wit, fantasy and ingenuity to produce personal and sensuous objects that can often be adapted to the needs of the user. Ayse Birsel’s Red Rocket desk, for example, is a radical rethink of the work station. Biomorphic shapes make up a space that seems to mould its way around the user’s body, giving her (it could only be a her, or a truly liberated man) a sense of comfort and control. It’s a desk for girls with attitude and a habit of putting their box of tampons in the see-through filing cabinet next to their station.

Recent years have seen a return of the decorated object and a sense of whimsy in industrial design. After 20 years of obsessive, hard-edged, “boy” design, things seem to be lightening up. This move has freed up women, in particular, to enter a world where the baroque is embraced and ornament is celebrated.

French designer Florence Doléac is an extreme example: she makes sculptural objects that are devoid of function but would make any home look like the set of a theatrical show. Danish designer Anette Hermann produces light installations that project daisies and clouds onto benches and tables, and Camilla Groth camouflages her ceramic tableware by leaking pattern from cups and saucers onto tables.

Expressing the difference between the sexes leaves the contributors, editor and designers in this book negotiating tricky ground. They have boldly decided to state a difference and risk marginalisation rather than pretend second place is really quite comfy. Dish irreverently abandons the pathetic “Go on – include me” plea of many all-female line-ups and instead seems to say, “OK, do what you damn well want but if you pass me by you won’t have such a good time.”

travolta · 21-03-2005

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Originally Posted by Arturo21

I'm suscribed to Azure..isn't very good..I'm going to suscribe to surface and/or wallpaper. Wallpaper combines all my interests, although their fashion sections are ridiculous, just Gucci, Burberry, LV, and Prada..but I love their lifestyle section. I love surface because it's good a pretty good section on fashion and also deals with design and architecture.

i suggest wallpaper. i used to be a fan of surface, but i think it has gone down hill.

travolta · 22-03-2005

i think i'm a little offended by what this book is trying to say^...its hard enough to have gender equality in industrial design

travolta · 24-03-2005

a very good article about dutch design

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1996.../fulltext.html

"When compared with the larger picture of design in the Netherlands, this selection of objects appears isolated. Only some Dutch architecture is so subtle and understated. Dutch fashion is often aggressively iconoclastic and has embraced the deconstruction of traditional aesthetics that has been celebrated by Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons"

Arturo21 · 24-03-2005

thx for the articles, travolta.

Have you seen the new Volvo? Designed completely by women, the design is so sleek and y, powerful.

travolta · 24-03-2005

welcome. i have to say i'm not a huge car person..it looks nice enough. the website is kinda fun.

travolta · 20-04-2005

MARTI GUIXE 6 / Do Frame

Adhesive tape with golden frame pattern, enabling you to rapidly set up a personal museum.

Edited by do, presented in the exhibit do + droog design = do create, 2000
This product is stored in the museum collection of Centraal Museum Utrecht

www.guixe.com

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travolta V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New York City Gender: femme Posts: 3,595	cool...i haven't checked out any design mags recently. do you have a subscription to any? anyways you should really check out that book i posted--its kinda like the handbook for industrial design-good stuff... __________________ "the way a problem is set up often suggests the resolution." http://michelleboxgirl.blogspot.com/

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travolta V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New York City Gender: femme Posts: 3,595	good article on droog http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/021/droog.htm __________________ "the way a problem is set up often suggests the resolution." http://michelleboxgirl.blogspot.com/

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travolta V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New York City Gender: femme Posts: 3,595	also from the website: DISH Two pubes on a plate – what does this tell us about the work of women designers today? Perhaps girls do want to have fun but they want a lot more besides. The cover of this book is cool, white and minimal. It consists of one picture: a white plate with two pubic hairs on it. This is a promising start. Turn the page and you are greeted with the word “Dish” written in that needlework style so favoured by prissy 19th-century middle England. This is even more promising. Dish is a selection of recent work by 40 female industrial designers from across the globe. It may seem deeply unfashionable to produce a women-only line-up or even to dwell on inequality of the sexes at all, but the scarcity of women in design and architecture is so pronounced that desperate – even unfashionable – measures are called for. The editor of this book, Julie Müller Stahl, proposes that this imbalance is due to the approach many women take to a career in the industry: unlike their male counterparts, their identities do not revolve around being “a designer”. They take on multiple roles, each of which retains potency and autonomy – roles such as mother, wife, designer, entrepreneur, artist and teacher. This wider identity matrix results in an approach that many manufacturers and design firms find difficult to contain and one that doesn’t fit nicely into the established economic framework. Flipping through the designers’ short statements, I am struck by the similarity of outlook. Many of the designers want to collaborate with partners, create self-produced work (thus keeping control over the end product) and generate an emotional connection between the user and the object. They use wit, fantasy and ingenuity to produce personal and sensuous objects that can often be adapted to the needs of the user. Ayse Birsel’s Red Rocket desk, for example, is a radical rethink of the work station. Biomorphic shapes make up a space that seems to mould its way around the user’s body, giving her (it could only be a her, or a truly liberated man) a sense of comfort and control. It’s a desk for girls with attitude and a habit of putting their box of tampons in the see-through filing cabinet next to their station. Recent years have seen a return of the decorated object and a sense of whimsy in industrial design. After 20 years of obsessive, hard-edged, “boy” design, things seem to be lightening up. This move has freed up women, in particular, to enter a world where the baroque is embraced and ornament is celebrated. French designer Florence Doléac is an extreme example: she makes sculptural objects that are devoid of function but would make any home look like the set of a theatrical show. Danish designer Anette Hermann produces light installations that project daisies and clouds onto benches and tables, and Camilla Groth camouflages her ceramic tableware by leaking pattern from cups and saucers onto tables. Expressing the difference between the sexes leaves the contributors, editor and designers in this book negotiating tricky ground. They have boldly decided to state a difference and risk marginalisation rather than pretend second place is really quite comfy. Dish irreverently abandons the pathetic “Go on – include me” plea of many all-female line-ups and instead seems to say, “OK, do what you damn well want but if you pass me by you won’t have such a good time.” __________________ "the way a problem is set up often suggests the resolution." http://michelleboxgirl.blogspot.com/

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travolta V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New York City Gender: femme Posts: 3,595	nyc dutch design events... http://www.dutchdesignevents.com/ora...rt_events.html

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travolta V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New York City Gender: femme Posts: 3,595	really good design book--Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change-must read.

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Arturo21 fashion insider Join Date: Nov 2004 Gender: homme Posts: 2,148	Lol..I agree, I just didn't want to say. Strawbutterb..I have so much to post! AAh! I look at lots of design magazines and say, "Oh, I gotta post that!" but never get to it.. I will soon, though

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travolta V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New York City Gender: femme Posts: 3,595	i think i'm a little offended by what this book is trying to say^...its hard enough to have gender equality in industrial design __________________ "the way a problem is set up often suggests the resolution." http://michelleboxgirl.blogspot.com/

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travolta V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New York City Gender: femme Posts: 3,595	a very good article about dutch design http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1996.../fulltext.html "When compared with the larger picture of design in the Netherlands, this selection of objects appears isolated. Only some Dutch architecture is so subtle and understated. Dutch fashion is often aggressively iconoclastic and has embraced the deconstruction of traditional aesthetics that has been celebrated by Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons" __________________ "the way a problem is set up often suggests the resolution." http://michelleboxgirl.blogspot.com/ Last edited by travolta; 24-03-2005 at 03:55 PM.

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Arturo21 fashion insider Join Date: Nov 2004 Gender: homme Posts: 2,148	thx for the articles, travolta. Have you seen the new Volvo? Designed completely by women, the design is so sleek and y, powerful.

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travolta V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New York City Gender: femme Posts: 3,595	welcome. i have to say i'm not a huge car person..it looks nice enough. the website is kinda fun. __________________ "the way a problem is set up often suggests the resolution." http://michelleboxgirl.blogspot.com/

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travolta V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New York City Gender: femme Posts: 3,595	MARTI GUIXE 6 / Do Frame Adhesive tape with golden frame pattern, enabling you to rapidly set up a personal museum. Edited by do, presented in the exhibit do + droog design = do create, 2000 This product is stored in the museum collection of Centraal Museum Utrecht www.guixe.com __________________ "the way a problem is set up often suggests the resolution." http://michelleboxgirl.blogspot.com/

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