http://www.mydrift.net/archives/51 ONE DESIGNER'S THOUGHTS ON EVERYTHING Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:26:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 http://www.mydrift.net/archives/51#comment-68 Spence Holman Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:27:45 +0000 http://www.mydrift.net/archives/51#comment-68 I agree, the trash can seems to be the best form/functio marriage, while the other too seem to be hot glue solutions to overflowing recycling bins. It seems to me that designers would benefit from taking some of the elegant solutions from the Rural Studio and applying them to this arena. Where the frame and the mannequin are crafty but ostentatious displays of the artist's earth conscious intentions, Samuel Mockby and his crew created beautiful structures with all manner of rescued material while letting the function shine through just as much as the form. Perhaps product designers ought to think less about how recycling can be attached to something, and more about how that something can be integrated with (and benefit from) reconsidered materials. I agree, the trash can seems to be the best form/functio marriage, while the other too seem to be hot glue solutions to overflowing recycling bins. It seems to me that designers would benefit from taking some of the elegant solutions from the Rural Studio and applying them to this arena. Where the frame and the mannequin are crafty but ostentatious displays of the artist’s earth conscious intentions, Samuel Mockby and his crew created beautiful structures with all manner of rescued material while letting the function shine through just as much as the form. Perhaps product designers ought to think less about how recycling can be attached to something, and more about how that something can be integrated with (and benefit from) reconsidered materials.

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