The Coming and Going. Of Design.
Part One
Relative
intrigue (novelty)
Of
design?
Of
course and that is always pleasant.
But a little too selfish; as if one IS an ‘an object’.
Divination? A foundation? No: Bad. Go back and look again. Harder. With no ‘u’.
Just it. And quickly. Throw that (object) through the
heritage of all design
Very,
very quickly.
Is
it still there; your an ‘an object’.
Or did it disappear?
Take
the ‘squirt gun’ (‘water pistol’)
For
example.
“Didn’t
‘was there’ before”. No. Not there: Was not there.
The
squirt gun / water pistol was a ‘not there’. Then a ‘someone’ ‘innovated’ a design form titled ‘squirt
gun’ and/or ‘water pistol’. Or was
that design innovation not singular.
Not a ‘one person’ – ‘one design form’ ...innovation. Took several over several ‘time’ too...
fumbling starts and stops. A
magical medium?
YES
THERE; a divination, a foundation?
YES
THERE: “Plastic”. Molded plastic design; a ‘gun’ that
‘squirts water’; a ‘squirt gun’... a ‘water pistol... made of molded plastic I
“Had
one when I was a kid”. You
did. But Dad didn’t? The ‘design form’ “hadn’t been invented
yet” (innovated). “Dad? Did you?”
“No
I didn’t”
“And
my kid doesn’t either!” That
design form... either. Molded
plastic squirt guns were... and now are
NOT. The design form has “evolved” and the
“MY SQUIRT GUN” has...
Is...
Was...
Can
be
Could
be
Is...
“NOT”. The molded plastic squirt
gun... as an innovated design form... came... was... and... is not. “I SEE THAT” you say. “FOR ALL DESIGN”. I doubt your that good at it
Really.
If
you are that adept at design... why is your life a full gathering of
Bad
design.
“Go
back and look again?” “Harder?”
A
design form ‘appears’, ‘exists’ and... ‘disappears’. All of it does.
Always. Constantly. It is the constant of design;
appear-be-disappear.
Everything: ALL. Object?
“Where
is it?” (its current moment in an ‘its design heritage’).
Again?
The
18th century had people who drank tea sitting at tea tables. First there were no tea tables, then
there were ‘innovations’ of tea tables, then popular usage of ‘designed for tea
drinking’ tea tables. Then tea
drinking ‘falling off’ with coffee drinking ‘appearing’ so
Sitting
at tea and the tables ‘fell off’ and the... disappeared... while coffee
drinking fumbled its table space for
One
hundred years to finally find
The
‘coffee table’ innovated and starting to ‘appear’ as a ‘design form’ during the
late Edwardian and World War One era to ‘become’ a domestic design standard by
“THE TWENTIES and ‘carrying’ as a domestic design form for most of the 20th
century to only be discovered to be ‘disappearing’ RIGHT NOW because (1) people
are sick of tripping over them AND (2) ‘never using it’ (to sit at and drink
coffee). You know where people
drink coffee?
In
their... yeah... the little plastic ‘cup holders’ as a design form are
EVERYWHERE these days; a ‘considerable innovation’ in design that is, for the
most part... very not inspired design and disturbingly ugly. Too. From tea tables to plastic ‘driver side’ cup holder to
Grandmother’s house
WE...
as a beverage service design form... GO.
I
didn’t mean to do that; make fun of your coffee mug. So... let us do that some more. You and your design usage and the comprehensive perceptions
of that... are
“Wicked
ugly”.
Sweethearts.
Most
of it (one’s design usage) is, actually, as a quality of life... intellectual
perception... nasty. No
notice. No carry over. No ‘relative to what’ (anything). Returning to the squirt gun I denote
the marked ‘made in USA’ amplification and how that there-then (on a vintage
1960 squirt gun) is NOT a disingenuous design inclusion AND is merely a design
declaration that has, for example, the “Park Plastics Co. Linden, N.J.” title molding of this
molded plastic design company that... specialized in ‘making’ plastic squirt
guns (now defunct - ‘disappeared’...)
Yeah: The real ‘made in
USA’ that as a design form of itself HAS DISAPPEARED TOO. Ok... Calm down...:
That
is “purity” of the “expression” of design. Seems a little trite?
NO. I use ‘expressions’ of
‘purity’ of design all the time when I critique any and all design forms as my
‘antiquarian interest’. So get
used to doing that yourself. As a
comprehensive value action you take
Constantly.
So...
let us do some more... again.
Waste...
paper... is a design form. In both
senses: Waste paper, an
object. Waste paper, an action. Where? Waste... paper... basket. A design form... poorly titled... but a ‘none the
less’. Bet you even own one. Or two.
A
design form... that was ‘not’ before.
The 18th century?
Waste paper? Did they...
waste... paper. Did they have
waste paper. A waste... paper...
basket?
No.
A
waste paper basket ‘appeared’ as a late Victorian design form; an object
created with intentional design purpose.
Yes... look at yours: There
it is. A design form... after
all. Your is ‘ugly’? I know that. We are getting to that. It is ugly because you never considered it... as an
aesthetic ... a design form. You
just chuck your snotty Kleenex ‘in it’.
Yuck... AND you are just soooo.... arty. So they (waste paper baskets) exist. And they have not disappeared. They have gotten really ugly and really
crummy and really gross. As design
forms... that you have. Just
feeling (as opposed to ‘thinking’) that one may have to adjust this... splendid
demonstration of bad taste in the ‘your home’? A sort of ‘look in their refrigerator if you really want to
see’... kind of wrong message sender; your waste paper basket. Don’t worry, I do notice and do notice
‘good ones’’; GOOD waste paper baskets.
Didn’t know there could be that?
“A good one”. Design
encompasses all and ‘is there’ too.
A little as if one is wearing no clothes... one’s design inclusions
are: A ‘naked’... is one’s design
sense to the disciplined eye. Your
waste paper basket is the fat on the inside of
Your
thigh.
Well
don’t worry. One may ‘correct’
this; ‘work on’ the ‘your waste
paper baskets. You WILL like doing
this (sophistication of the art eye)
AND you will too... get to notice ‘them’ and, of course... denote ‘good
ones’. Good ones of waste paper
basket design... in a (your) domestic setting. You don’t want someone like me making fun of your waste
paper baskets... do you. It is
gonna cost you more than you’d like to... ‘work on this’... domestic design
disaster. Waste paper basket
design... is a good place to start your career with ‘good’ (great) ‘design’. No one will notice at first. Most everyone is ‘pretty numb’ when it
comes to their ‘waste paper baskets’.
For starters, just ‘seeing’ a ‘good one’... is hard... work. And you will have to go directly to the
secondary marketplace (antiquarian realms). The waste paper basket stores that sell good ones are few
and expensive. And a lot of theirs
are ‘crummy’ shams made to ‘LOOK LIKE’ but are not really a “GOOD ONE”. Fraud? Yes. But you
can deal with it.
See
how fast this goes? Your already
looking at all the waste paper baskets you can find. Even your best friend’s and ....your mother’s. Welcome aboard.
Design.
What
if you discover that the waste paper basket your mother gave you is a ‘good
one’? She ‘got it’ from ‘her
mother’? Oh... THAT kind of waste
paper basket. Didn’t know till
just now that this could happen.
Better stop... take a look around.
What if your grandmother knew a ‘good one’ (a good waste paper basket)
and, passing it along to you, ‘was trying to help’. Wasp etiquette?
You bet.
Your
getting rid of your plastic ones... from the box stores? Good start. Your going to grandmother’s house and reviewing ALL of her
waste paper baskets? Good
start. Didn’t know that waste
paper baskets had a ‘could come from within’ design heritage. I’ve known it for decades. Thank you for ‘leaving them behind’
when you ‘clean out’ grandmother’s house.
I’ve never ‘bought one’. I
delight in ‘finding’ a ‘good one’.
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