Laser-cutting greatness
I understand if you find over-ornamentation dissatisfying, and granted laser cutting techniques only make it easier, but to think that laser cutting has only negative influences on modern design is waaaay off.
check out the link to the Bendant Lamp by Mio, a beautifully geomoetric form that involves the end user, manufactured entirely with a laser cutting process (and by doing so wastes as little material as possible-- Mio is very green).
This website also sells mirrors from the Design Can: laser cut acrylic that makes me laugh. The edges are a little ornamental, but not ugly. And the point is to be humorous.
http://www.followfunction.com/index.php?cPath=31
(and what a coincidence, the same site also sells Vessel products)
Bendant Lamp:
http://www.followfunction.com/product_info.php?products_id=3654
Until now I have lived...
Until now I have lived happily unaware of that lamp - quick, give me something by Poul Henningsen to look at, so I can erase that horrible image from my mind! - And being addicted to lamps, I usually try to see at least something positive in every lamp I encounter.....
In all things a balance
A drag queen once said to me: " Honey... its ALL about the accessories!!" I think the laser cut designs 'can' be beautiful... but not all 'are'. With all design some people get it right, and others mindlessly copy. I would never print anything on a piece of furniture, but my curtains have a laser-cut-eque graphic pattern on them.... as does a rug of mine. The thing is, I can scap those pieces and still have the solid bones of a room.
Any new...
or relatievly new (laser cutting has been around for 20 years or so) will produce a large number of applications, and as has beeen pointed out some are good and some bad. The technology as such does not produce quality and to get too excited about it is never a good start. Yet it seems to be the way human things go. Excesive behaviour always seems to preceed a more reasonable one. Nuclear stockpiling, sex, car use, computer games or laser cutting, it all follows a pattern development, excessive use and the inevitable decline into a more mature and more enjoyable balance. I guess that we will have to live through this one to.
I must admit that some of it is charming....I like the associated web links so here goes my contribution
http://www.dianesteverlynck.be
Once
in a while it becomes crystal clear to me what is the essence of good design: an object (and its patterns and textures, if any) that does NOT call attention to itself; that seems to present a "normal" or universal aspect, modest and efficient; that seems to have "designed itself," as we presume has happened in the natural world; that represents the shortest line between problem and solution.
Objects both ancient and recent that present this aspect are the delight of the "modern eye." The window "fabric" above is one such. . . It is refreshing to the ever-hopeful designer that there seems an endless supply of such design solutions, despite their seeming obviousness and simplicity.
Isn't this beauty enough, for a jaded and visually over-fed world ?
"It's ugly...and in bad taste."--Koen
I didn't get the definitive, sledge-hammer elegance of Koen's comment early in this thread, when I read it a few days ago. It just struck me as accurate. Now it rings with a kind of poetry. I wish I spoke his native tongue. I bet it sounds even better in that language.
I like this new bench from...
I like this new bench from Danish Thomas E. Alken: www.se-design.dk/udstillinger_.php?id=31&type=1&udstiller=1&item=1. I think it's better than most garden furniture out there, mainly because it's simple and elegant, yes, but also fairly untraditional ... well, sort of. Also, at first I really didn't like Patricia Urgua-something-qliasa's table "Digitable" from B&B but now I kinda like it. It's not all bad. Like with all styles and trends regarding design and interior decoration, there's a small portion of certain brilliant design trying to set the standard for tomorrow and then there's a large portion of look-a-like crap following it right in its tracks lowering the standard for tomorrow.
koen, this "very long bench" seems...
like something sophisticated is going on--either in the bench, or in the photograph of it. Looking at the photograph on my computer screen makes my eyes try to focus on both ends of the bench and keeps me from focusing on the center of the bench and the picture. Strange sensation, kind of neo-op art in a way. Am I imagining this effect, or is it real? If real, is it accidental, or intentional?
http://www.se-design.dk/udstillinger_.php?id=31&type=1&udstiller=39&item=1
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The second link opens the picture for me. . .
If the bench uses three lengths of the same L-shaped (U-shaped ?) extrusion, that is quite clever.
The optical illusion is somewhat present for me, too -- perhaps the accidental result of the particular length, and the complete uniformity of the lighting on the object ?
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