“There shouldn’t be any differentiation between form and function,” she maintained in a recent interview. “The idea that form must follow function, that’s out the window; it’s a tired cliché. A good object, a well-designed object, is encompassing. It is unified, the material embodiment of a strong idea…Design is not decoration…It’s less and less about function as an end point, and more and more about access to networks. Increasingly, objects are gateways to different ways of doing things, to different ways of living.”
> Abstracts taken from The Evolving Purpose of Design by Glen Martin
Forms of Design:Facilitate (enable, empower, enrich) life and is able to tell a story
1. Systems – self organizing, feedback loops, living systems
2. Mass Media – journalists (photography, films, advertising)
3. Architecture
> Paola Antonelli, senior curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Design is art with a purpose. Purpose of design is creation. Designing often necessitates considering the aesthetic, functional, economic and sociopolitical dimensions of both the design object and design process. It may involve considerable research, thought, modeling, interactive adjustment, and re-design.
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