THE NATURE OF DESIGN
It seems everywhere you look nature is taking over. Images and silhouettes of leaves, insects, bunnies and other cute and cuddly forest animals are intermingling with all kinds of graphic forms and modern surfaces. Whether it’s graphic, fashion or furniture design, the art of “naturalizing” seems to be a trend that has been blossoming in the last year. In many cases the use of these rustic elements seem to be a direct reaction to societies love and hate relationship with technology and all of its distracting creations. By combining elements of nature to simple utilitarian objects such as a dresser, the object instantly takes on a whole new meaning. It goes from a piece of functional design to a piece of functional art with added character. Why does the future always have to be about slick shiny surfaces and space travel when we could be looking forward to an utopian society of magical unicorns and dung beetles? It may just be the perfect thing to help brings us all back down to earth.
It is easy to overlook the artefacts provided ‘outside’. Bring them in I say, look at them, every year, every season. It might be harder to regularly renew the sense of wonder at the fine detail work and the pure functionality of say, beech mast that opens on your window sill in four hours, lime seeds in flight, feathers, layers in a shell and other cliches, when they should always be an inspiration. We can at best only mimic function that is beautiful, and try to create objects that are disposable but in no way wasteful. The future might be muddier than we imagine.
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why not buy a plant, instead of a chest with leaves on it?
nature’s design is where its at!
This one makes sence “One’s first step in wisdom is to kuesstion everything - and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.”