Designing, to me, is to create a product that is functional with no unnecessary parts that is as ergonomic as possible for the specific target group. Creating a product with the aesthetics in mind is crucial but the design must be classic.
Creating something that is timeless would be key for me but many products these days such as cars and electronics follow the trend storm that will die out just as quickly as it came.
Designs that touch back to history and that haven’t changed much through the years such as pots and pans or picture frames are classic designs to me and will never become “tacky” or stupid.
Something like a pot would not and usually does not have much “art” and if it does then it is less obvious. All the parts to a pot are necessary and functional… They all have their own job and its obvious from first glance.
Something like a picture frame is classic but also very different from a pot because they are decorative pieces. Even if they are decorative they do not draw too much attention to themselves and they are there to hug the picture and hold it up. Of course there are designers who are targeting children and end up creating a crazy colorful “shit” frame but wooden ones or stainless steel ones that are simple yet unique… Those are the ones that string back to their roots.
Cereal boxes might be something that is classic that mixes with art well because the shape and the box itself have not changed for quite some time. The bag of cereal inside... the cardboard box with the “resealable” tab on top… Nothing special about it but the art on the front will always change. The colorful noisy image on the front is what sells the product. In this case, art would have to dominate.
In each product, there is an obvious presence of art and design but one is always louder than the other. In a chair, comfort would come before color or “fabulous aesthetics”.
I think that designing with art in mind is great… IF you can pull it off.
It should not be loud and obnoxious because that will take away from the product itself and makes it almost look like the designer is trying to redeem himself for another part that doesn’t function correctly… And art should not look like it was put there last minute to make it beautiful but add to the product and compliment its appearance as a whole.
Art and design go hand in hand and should be pout to use that way. It would be difficult to sell one without the other but designers should definitely be more conscious to what they are giving more power to.
I came across a Ukrainian designer named Yurko Gutsulyak and he designed a very unique and fun calendar. Each month looks like a comb of matches and each day, the owner of the calendar would pull off the match of that day and burn it away. There is nothing to throw way in the end and it’s much more exciting than the average “stack of papers” calendar. … its amazing, I love it
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