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| Good writing IS designed...Designs future may be redesigned..... | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| Good writing IS designed...Designs future may be redesigned...Pt.5 Many relatively open ended computer games like the Sims already hint at this future, so I think I am not forecasting the future as commenting on the rudiments of it that are already here. Why does this matter to writers and designers? Because writers and designers must always adapt to new media and adapt forms to that new media. I suspect that the renaissance writer/designer of the future is apt to be a computer programmer, at least in the sense that adroitness with computer programming will be one of his/her keenly developed skills. But it will not just be the ability to use a computer, or to CAD a design, but it will be a profound grasp of the kind of intercreativity that computer programming can facilitate not only in digital media, but perhaps in the written word and in the fields of design. Just as I sense that what a book can be will become not merely interactive (that is kind of mechanical and boring when it has been tried by the likes of Latin American Fantastic fictionists in books like Hopskotch that can be read in different chapter orders a la the Canterbury Tales so long before it), but intercreative: so too I suspect that certain kinds of designed objects often discussed on this web site may one day take on an intercreative characteristic either in their conception with clients, or with the way the end object is intended to be used. I know the idea that a chair or a salt shaker could advantageously and beneficially be designed as an intercreative object seems quite farfetched and counter to the conventional and traditional advantages and benefits of having a skilled designer design an artifact to do one thing exceptionally well. But as I watch my son play with Legos and see him not only build the skillfully designed thing the Legos were intended/programmed for, I am subsequently amazed and delighted by the things that he contrives from them after he deconstructs and reconstructs them in ways stimulated by the interaction with the original design. It is I believe called learning followed by creative improvisation with new knowledge. Perhaps what I am getting at here is that one day that design in the digital age will become so facile in its components that designers will objects to function one way, but also to be deconstructed and reconstructed by the person consumer subsequent to intial use. It will be quite a different kind of design and it will never replace traditional design of an object for a particular use, but what an interesting possbility. | |||||
| The old gang is back!!!... | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | difeliciantonio | General discussion | |
| The old gang is back!!!... The old gang is back!!! Haha. Pot stired I still haven't fully commited to the walnut top but that figure and grain is beyond epic and beautiful and its not everyday you see grain like that. But the shorter length delima did present itself to me wheather if I did it to narrow the table proportionately Or leave the width the same making more of fat surfboard. What ever I did I would leave the base the same distance from ends and edge spacing the same. I have a sheet of black laminate that I just received from good ole home depot so don't lose faith on me yet, I still could do the right thing! Who is onegrovydude and I definitely don't do meth or smoking Anything for that mater. I like my having nice. Stain free teeth. | |||||
| Thanks Jim! | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | bj | General discussion | |
| Thanks Jim! Are those yours? You don't see these much here in Belgium. Tomado was well sold here, but Pilastro didn't it seems. So I was very excited when this came for sale on a secondhand site. Seller didn't know what he was offering, price was low, but there was much interest, willing to go far above asking price. I mailed and said it was difficult discussing prices but placed the highest amount I was willing to give (a third/fourth of the value I see at shops or dealers) and I got it! When arriving at the home of the seller, it was a fifties modern bungalow. Everything inside was changed during the eighties but the coat rack stayed on the wall. I also snagged one vase made by Perignem, a ceramic workshop around Bruges. It was the only other thing left from the possibly wonderfull fifties interior long gone. | |||||
| No problem with collectible | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| No problem with collectible I have no issue with the fact that original pieces are expensive. They are somewhat scarce, and thats fine. Its the new production of the furniture that makes me wonder...if part of the design is affordability - shouldnt the manufacturer honor that? When I was showing my brother (a carpenter) the new Eames desk I'd been eyeing he pointed to each element and told me in which aisle of the local hardware store I could find it. I explained that the point of the desk was to utilize prefabricated parts. He asked "if thats the case.. why is it so expensive?" The only thing I could honestly say is: profit. Was the original designed to maximize profit? Or to provide good solutions to the masses? | |||||
| Modern chrome chair identification | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | sonofeltopo | Identification | |
| I found a chair just like this today at goodwill. This is the only photo of one I can find on Google but there is no info if I follow the link funny thing is mine has a property of coca cola botlers Detroit metal tag (I'm assuming just to keep track not like they made the chair) I'll take actual pictures of mine soon. so my question, is it anything special? Thanks for looking. | |||||
| jesgord, I didn't see your updates | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| jesgord, I didn't see your updates until now. Nice work! I found the cane to be really trying at first but after two seats I got the hang of it and it wasn't so bad. The thing that bugged me most, I think, is the variation from strand to strand and even within a strand. Some parts are thicker and harder and tend to split when nailed, and they don't wrap as neatly around wood rails. Then other parts are a lot more flexible but they shred along the long edges. And the hairs! I also had a lot harder time when I would do short sessions. Part of that was that the already-woven section had dried out completely, but also I would forget how I'd done the tricky bits and would make more mistakes until I got into the groove again. Doing an entire seat in one day was the easiest, though my fingers were pretty sore at the end. | |||||
| I've done a fair amount of reupholstering... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| I've done a fair amount of reupholstering... I had to take classes to learn it and I'm a very experienced seamstress. It's a fairly complex thing to learn. I'd definitely get the foam professionally cut. Lucifersum is right it's not a cakewalk. Very easy to torque the bread knife and get non-parallel cuts. He's also right that you should use the batting for additional 'loft'. If you really want some additional softness you sould consider wrapping the cushions in a bed duvet, that you refit for the cushions. Down or artificial down are both good to use. Adds an extra bit of work but produces really nice 'tush-appeal'. My Neils Bendsten Neo sofa came that way and I've since redone two other chairs using that method cuz it's so gosh-darned comfy. Doing this also gives a bit longer life to the cushions themselves. | |||||
| www.whiteonwhite.com | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| Can anyone tell me about white on white . they use to be the joke of the modern furniture world cause every thing they shipped had a problem but there new website is really cool, great music. Has anyone bought from them recently? I bought tulip side tables last year and they came smashed and my friend bought the big Tulip dinning table yep the marble it came smashed. For a while we were thinking these guys were making more from Fed=X on insurance then there customers . I wonder has any one seen the La Chaise or any of the Arne Jacobsen chairs? I hate when they look fakey... but they all look so good on there website, Even the Nelson clocks that i have paid 250 to 350 form Vitra for cost around 100 to 150.00 ( how bad can that be) if it does not come smashed? any way love to hear | |||||
| Some day I would like to | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| Some day I would like to understand why Iens Harald Qvistgaard was so fond of rendering his name according to Latin orthography. Latin did not have the letters J or U, so this is how his name would have been rendered perhaps in some of the earliest Danish to be written in the Latin alphabet (shortly after Christianity was brought to Denmark, I suppose). In fact, to drive the point home Iens has even replaced the space with an interpunct, which is barely known outside of classical Roman stone inscriptions. We also see this in the IHQ on many Dansk pieces. The other strange thing is that some Dansk pieces use the modern JHQ. I suppose perhaps Iens would have argued that Jens is the same spelling of the name. Historically the bottom of the J is just a flourish the scribe could add to an I. | |||||
| Pegboard Modern has made some... | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | DavidR | General discussion | |
| Pegboard Modern has made some... Pegboard Modern has made some great points. Often when I think to myself "this is the best example I have seen", I raise an eyebrow. If it were to be all original, it would be incredible. What seems odd, however, is the glossiness of the paint and the glossiness of the top finish. If I were to go out and guess what the story is with this piece, I would assume that someone re-lacquered it and repainted it a few years ago. My next guess would be that someone bought a label from the wrong era and superglued it on. I am nearly certain that the label is not paper as well. Lastly, just by taking a look at the placement of the label and the fact that it is not on-center, does that seem like a very Herman Miller thing to do? If the price is low and you don't mind having an example that is not all original, I would go for it, however, you will see another one of these in your lifetime and I would be more inclined to find a different example if you truly want an all original one. | |||||
| check home Depot first Then Dwell | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| check home Depot first Then Dwell On that home all you need to do is build a nice steel box get some metal louvers, get some paint be sure to powdercoat it so it will last. Next build your loft.. Your local Home depot will have every thing you need. you should be able to knock that one out in around a month or get in contact with Dwell magazine they have devoted there exsistance on small homes, prefab homes ,off site trucked in homes. you name it they devote a entire issue on those type of homes. If You want to go Green even better they are right there for you. So don't think it is impossible to build that home ( no plans or expensive royalty to pay or fancy architect fees) Just start on Monday and get after it.. | |||||
| A replacement shade from Mode... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | objectworship | General discussion | |
| A replacement shade from Mode... A replacement shade from Modernica would be the practical solution but with a brand name clash... The shade will be labeled MODERNICA, which is irritating, as it unfortunately makes the necessary and innocent update into a bit of a crass marriage of abomination. If your shades are destroyed, though, that's your best option beyond just buying "new" vintage lamps. If they still have a good side then just make do, that's what I do, and what I think everyone else does too... I think pretty much all vintage examples of these things are damaged to some extent, they're pretty fragile and over the course of fifty years or whatever things happen; that's the way the cookie crumbles... I'd like there to be a toolbar so I can italicize and use colors and stuff on this thing, there's a thread about that in here somewhere, isn't there? | |||||
| Lol... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | onegroovydude | General discussion | |
| Lol... He might be...:) I posted 6 or 7 pics....out of 43. I hardly posted the hell out of it. I only posted the pics of the stove, because I wanted to show everyone how good of a job I did on the restoration. I was proud of it. I put almost 100 hours into it. A: "That looks nice!" was the extent of what I would have been looking for. Or for SDR to say: "well you can probably get your time back out of that". That's it. Not to peddle it here. I know no one here would want that stove. It will sell to the same people that want the owl. That's the last thing I thought of was people here wanting to buy it. Look. I do plenty good enough on my site, to not have to try to sell items here. I have pride dude. I'm not that desperate. I'm here to learn, contribute, have fun, swap snappies, and talk shop about art. You may know a lot, but believe me, so do I. Maybe I'm just covering too much area, and need to limit my scope. Maybe I see too much. Maybe I think too much. Maybe I need to smoke up. It's not my fault my brain is overflowing with the drive for knowledge. | |||||
| the power of good design | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | hey there | General discussion | |
| the power of good design "Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting." Steve McQueen hey btm, yeah,it probably is a guy thing. these designs do turn heads of many a young lass on the boulevard though. ahhhh... the power of good design. he he.. the good dr always wanted to do a 4 door based on the 928 years ago. i'm glad he did not do it then. but now, i'm a little worried about the panamera... if it fails, ugh for the brand steve had a very cool home in palm springs... very mid-century modern... neutra-like. it was put up for sale a year or 2 ago. seen it in a magazine somewhere. do you or anyone out there know anything about it? http://www.beaumondevillas.com/california/palm-springs/tiger-tail/index.... | |||||
| This was the type of place I ... | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | TinyArmada | General discussion | |
| This was the type of place I ... This was the type of place I figured I might run the chance of being on the other end of a shotgun if I started digging around on the porch without permission. Didn't end up that way, it was a nice woman and her grown daughter, but I feared a billybob with no teeth. The EST has done zip to help my search due to the exact thing you said - it meaning "established" or even "eastern standard time" The only reason I don't think it means "established" besides no date is that the EST is in a circle - more like a logo design than text. But I can't be sure. I did snap a few pics of the underside of the chair I will post later. The chair is of decent quality - metal base. The upholstery is nasty obviously because it's been sitting on a porch. I still couldn't tell if it's been redone either - could go either way. | |||||
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