2. What makes ART different
from DESIGN?
Design can aspire to be Art but can Art serve the
functionality of design?
3. Or can functionality be disguised in
the aesthetics of Art??
Function Form Formtion
The “marrying” of
Follows Follows
Function
Form Function
with
Form
FORMTION
4. Mother Nature is the
divine designer
perhaps we have to
look to nature for
inspiration-
Bio-mimicry?
5. Post-Modernist Design
Replacing objects of
Need
by
Creating objects
Desir
of______
e
Creating Design that
makes a statement about…?
7. Function Form
Follows Or Follows
Form Function
OR IS IT A SYNERGY OF THE TWO?
1+ 1= 3
The 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
8. A Future for DESIGN or
A Designed Future?
Are we taking design places or is design controlling us??
Concerns to address?-
1) Sustainable design
2) Usability of products
3) Experience design
4) Design to elevate
human consciousness-
Post-Modern design:
Questioning our
very assumptions of how
products should function:
Should
Products fit humans or
Humans fit products?
10. Good Artists Borrow,
Great Artists STEAL….?!!
____
Pablo Picasso
Its not where you take things FROM…
It is where you take them TO…
__
Jean-Luc GoDard
11. A labourer works with his hands
A craftsman works with his hands
and his head
An artist works with his hands,
his head
…and his heart
12. You can find inspiration in
anything
….and everything
Its all in the way we
see things
and we all see
things differently
Find your muse…
To light your fuse
