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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| It's a pleasure! | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| ... Would it make a difference to you, if someone would discribe his new flat screen design as: "I re-designed a TV set", versus someone discribing his design as " I re-designed a flat-screen TV set. In other words if the innovation (the creative part) is not part of the description, does that make a difference on how we percieve the innovation and the work of the designer? | |||||
| Dear Jan | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| Dear Jan One day I will find the time to comment your essay in greater length and detail (as promised) In the meantime...What would be, in the way you see it, the difference between design and re-design? My problem with the difference that you make is that I find it rather artificial. I do not think that there are any historical or other grounds on which one could assume that we see design as creating a completely new object or system, not based on any prior knowledge, experience, architypes, culture, you name it. In other words, we (I include all people inv ... | |||||
| We are somewhat... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| We are somewhat... remote from the original topic but allow me...There is an interesting aspect to this discussion that deserves some attention. When we write and read about well-known mid-century and earlier designers and compare them with contemporary known designers we usually forget a few essential differences between the two. What made Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Tapio Wirkalla, Poul Kjaerholm, Arne Jacobsen, Charles & Ray Eames, etc. etc. design-household words were two factors: the recognition of their peers and the lo ... | |||||
| Quality of leather | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Austin | General discussion | |
| Quality of leather Samples might be a good way to judge leather quality, but leather is not the only issue. Has I've said, foam density also makes a huge difference. The Barcelona from Knoll I have seen always had a very very dense foam, which makes the leather very tense. You can see this tension on this pic : ...it curves the cushion of the top. There has been some report saing that the Knoll chair was very unconfortable, despite the copies were more confortable. It comes from the foam. Another difference I've seen is the shiny aspect of the Knoll. Have ... | |||||
| Italian Leather Furniture made in China | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| ... at the quality of their products. You can see the HUGE difference between Decoro and Shangrila... though both are made in China. China can make high quality goods. It takes the right workers and right management. Shangrila just doesn't have it at this time. Give them a few more years to improve before making your purchase. Let others be the guinea pig on the "new" products. http://www.1-decoro-italian-leather-upholstered-furniture.com/ | |||||
| Hi Whitespike | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| Hi Whitespike It's always interesting to read your comments. I did not intensionally wanted to discredit "fun" design. On the contrary certain elements of humor in a products are important. I find it shallow when it does not go further than a "ha-ha-ha erlebnis" (as opposed to a "ah-ah erlebnis") but that's another discussion. In Ray Eames' case I would apply the distinction between "fun" things, things made "for fun", and "having fun" in making things. Most interviews, pictures of worksituations and former collaborator's stories indicate that inspite of bei ... | |||||
| Base | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | MidCentBoy | General discussion | |
| Base Look at the base and glides. The real thing has a five pointed base while most of the knockoffs were four. Also the comparing the glides will make a big difference. | |||||
| More... | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| More... It might come as a surprise to some but the abitity to recognize these relatively small differences between wave lengths reflected by objects it typical human. Many animals do not have this capability and have developed other skills like smell. By the way, if you test humans on seeing the difference between slightly different colors, you will find that the step is so small that you can put 3 million of these steps between infra red and ultra violet. On a commercial note. In housewares between 60% to 70% of what is sold is white, so right now people s ... | |||||
| Koen | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| ... You dscription cleared it up for me -- it must be fairly large? (Speaking of streetcars, I believe Gaudi met his untimely demise by backing into the path of one (in front of the Sagrada Familia?) while "having a look-see". . .or so the story goes. I responded to your remark citing a functional difference between an ellipse and a parabola; did you not say that one would allow for a desirable transition from straight to curve, while the other would not? If not, I misread you. My reply was that either would be capable of the sort of transition we were talking ... | |||||
| Thanks Koen. Very well said.... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| ... chair etc....), but people claim these as 'originals.' I don't see Modernica any differently. They are still Eames' designs. They are correct as they can be, even more than Herman Miller and Vitra's recent (re)productions. I have even heard some people say if it isn't vintage, then it is still a reproduction, even if it is manufactured by Herman Miller. Where do we stop then? Is this design snobbery gone mad? Why can't we be happy that modern design is available? Again I will say that I don't condone poorly done rip-offs of low quality and design variance. ... | |||||
| I received mine | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Austin | General discussion | |
| I received mine From http://www.design-classics.it/web/ Quality is good, but not as good as the original I've seen again last saturday. In fact, I notice three differences : - Leather quality, nicest on the Knoll. The leather shines and seems to be stronger, with no visible grain. - The density of the foam. I don't know what is inside the Knoll version, but it is much more dense than the one I bought. I guess the Knoll I've seen has been used for very few time, but so does mine. On the other hand, the density of the foam makes mine more confortable. - The c ... | |||||
| ...the end | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| ...the end There is of course an other form of art criticism. Art especially of earlier periods is sometimes difficult to appreciate because it is difficult to see it with the eyes of the time. It is not obvious to reconstruct Marcel Duchamps bicycle wheel within the original context. At the time he put it into the barstool, a bicycle wheel was probably the most high-tech object one could find. It was part of a recent discovery, it had a very unusual lightness that one could not find in locomotives, steel bridges or other technological achievements of the ti ... | |||||
| another attempt | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| ... put together by a writer and an illustrator. All three works are protected under one law: the copyright law. In the first case the book is a moderate commercial success, both the writer and the illustrator receive the royalties they agreed upon with the editor. They are a percentage of the book's sale's price or at least based on a percentage (sometimes it is better to agree on a fixed amount per book because it is easier to administrate than in a world where distribution and retail mark-ups are rather diversified). The second book becomes a "H.Potter"-like ... | |||||
| back on track... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| ... language and for that reason he prefers not to participate (it's time we get a little bit more multi-cultural) But he mentioned something that I wanted to share. In his view the difference between Art and Design is that"...the role of design is to answer questions, the role of art is to ask questions..." Beyond the obvious compact elegance of the statement I think that it reflects an interesting contemporary vision, in which art and design have a very distinctive role whereas they used to make mixed contributions to society. I am not in a good position to a ... | |||||
| reducing? | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| reducing? I would not include the computer in the list of significant differences between modernism and post-modernism. Tools rarely are significant catalysts in ideological changes. There is not such a thing as pen and paper design, there never was. Architects and designers have used and are still using a number of tools and materials, from industrial clay, to foam core, from balsa wood to paper napkins. Mies van der Rohe once build a full size model in canvas and wood, for the house he wanted to build for the Kroller-Moller family in the Hague and moved it ... | |||||
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