great design ideas
do what i percieve as great ideas in product design come from a brief. I believe they dont. I think that its just an idea of the designer, so not a problem solver, just an idea-ist and stylist perhaps.
posted by ben at 4:15 PM
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i dunno, i guess the do series from droog, those products from front, and generally different and interesting design don't strike me as having been designed from a specific brief. I may be completely wrong, presumptuous and offensive to designers in saying this. its almost as if they've thought, 'hey! thats a great idea', a vase which can be broken and serves as a memory and metaphor of a fixed relationship. and it is a great idea, its just that the solution came before the problem.
sorry, scratch 'different and interesting design', thats very broad. i mean specifically, some droog and some front design
well, i'm just moseying along in the cad labs waiting for my freakin car to animate/render, and i'm sure it'll look super awesome by the time i'm finished, but for now theres nothing to do!
ahh, time and how i love gettgin wasted with you.
I don't now there's always a brief even if it's not written down, I mean how else do they finish an idea and have an outcome. Though maybe my idea for a brief is quite different, I don’t see them being as formal all the time.
i guess they're not as formal. i cant help thinking that perhaps the only brief that front has is to create something weird and different. theres a few themes on their website, digital manipulation, 'accidental' design by animals and i doubt they fell into these ideas -they were informed, but not much mroe than - 'hey, that'd be cool' but probably in dutch.
i doubt they had a brief from someone saying 'create something which brings together the living environment and nature'. and even if they did, who si going to think that that coat rack you hung your coat on as you came is was moulded by a snake. thats kinda cool, but irrelavent.
that said, i think the droog stuff has more meaning to it, and it shouldnt need a brief.
just comparing the do-swing and rat eaten wall paper - so what - you have an infestation
i think droog had its eyes firmly on where thrie design's were going to end up. and they were focussed - like a lot of european homewares - on getting photogenic objects into design mags and into museums.
on the other side they have a 'spirit' not sure if the idea if central so much as the 'project'.
i agree with you soumitri, that the objects are very photogenic, but more than that - they are 'ideagenic', but i dont know what the word for it is. they resonate with people, and relate to people (at least with me and others i have talked to). the objects are extrodinary, unique and inimitable.
are the products more of a marketing strategy for droog than actual products? do people buy the do-swing, or we can't and thats the whole point.
if they had a spirit would it be mild absurdism mixed with a strange social comment? i dont believe that droog expect these products to be ...useful, more provocative.
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