Every assignment and lecture inspires me. It gives me new eyes that enable me to see objects in different ways. The last lecture about “art and design” was particularly inspiring. It had given me the answers to many of previous questions I mentioned. The lecture not only reminded me of some projects I have done in RISD, but also the purpose of being here. Before coming to RISD, I studied hotel management in Switzerlandand. I had not been exposed to the world of three demensional design. I came to RISD thinking of going into the fine art department. However, my foundation 3D class opened a new door for me and changed my decision. There was a project using recycled materials innovatively to design a new product. I chose plastic water bottles because they were free and easily accessible. I only used the bases of the used water bottles to make a chandelier. I was intrigued by the transparency of plastic bottles and how light interacted with the bottles. By adding a simple light to my plastic chandelier there was a manipulation of reflections. This project played a crucial role in me becoming a designer. It enabled me to approach ID in a new light. It gave me a new found view on how I percieve objects. My aspects and definition of design have been forever changed. To make a beautiful, functional and emotional product using recycled material never crossed my mind before. It was a transformation of ordinary to innovation. For the first time, I felt the pleasure of making something and I wanted to keep it. Stuart Haygarth’s chandelier reminds me of this project (http://www.designmiami.com/forum/downloads/i.com/forum/downloads/i.com/forum/downloads/).
Another joyful experience came to me during winter session. I took the “Search for innovative furniture” class, which was pretty much the same process as the foundation 3D class. I chose vinyl tubes and explored them for more than 3 weeks. First, I experimented so many different and complicated things. Then at the final stage I decided to use the material itself and make an organic, functional and expressive lamp through a different way. Innovation to me had always been about new technology and new materials, but this class taught me that innovaton could be achieved by designers using the ordinary and approaching the problem in a new mind set.
User studies are necessary and important to help us develope successful design solutions, but it is not the only approach. There is room in ID for a more emotional, expressive, and fine arts approach. The moment I saw the anemone chair by Campana brothers, I knew what kind of approach I should take towards design. The philosophy and approach they take to design is what I have been seeking for ID. Design for me at this stage in my career is all about taking new approaches of existing, ordinary materials. By using textiles and ID collaboration, I want to show a new range of expressive ID.
Textiles has always been a WOW factor for me. I can not help but to have interests in textiles. It always excites me when I see appealing patterns or colors of fabric. What intrigues me the most in textiles is that you design a pattern and using repetition of that designed pattern make new patterns. This process can create different feelings and a whole new fabric. Somtimes textile designers manipulate patterns so well, that a pattern may not be so apparent to the eye. Good textile designers not only manipulate patterns well, but use different kinds of fabrics with various textures. By applying these skills into a product it can create something really astonishing . This Sushi chair by Campana brothers could be one inspiration with using various colors and texture of fabric.
I want to push fine art, emotional aspects of textiles further and collaborate with ID. I want to not only design patterns, but also manipulate, and overlape fabric in many different ways. Through these techniques I will be able to open a new, wide range of ID. I totally agree with this quote by Campana brothers. “For me design is to bring emotion to being fun, to bring joy to people. Not only fictional form.” “It is that ten attempts to make function poetic and to make poetic functional which is never reachable, sometimes one is in the place of the other. Whenever both put together, at least about fifty and fifty or one tern and two terns in the projects, we make people happy, comfortable, and dreamy.”
I have found all the answers to my questions and doubts. Personally, Industrial Design is more than making it functional and pretty. I want to design products that can inspire and give emotion to people. I want to create products that can move, touch, and communicate with people.
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