Klaus et al,
Could the Gothic style be seen as rhetorical design in the way, for example, it
treats an arch and flying buttress?
These are visual developments of basic structural concepts, they are elegant,
stylistic developments (IMHO). If this holds true, then the Gothic (or
other)'styles' could be referred to as more rhetorical forms of design, and more
significantly - rhetorical examples of design are evidenced by the 'style' in
which they were conceived.
The rhetoric involved within a design is therefore the style inherent of that
period? This would parallel the fabric of a political speech used in the
language rhetoric of a particular era, for example.Eisenhower would have
considerable differences to Clinton.
If we then get rid of the styling - towards minimalism - and the design rhetoric
surrounding the visual artifact of an object, do we take it out of a period and
create classicism?
Just ideas.
BTW On the subject of Starck and anarchy - I think the Sex Pistols had anarchy
and 'fashion design' weighed up - "Stuff your cheap comments, we know what we
feel". If someone designs something and someone else wants it - who are we, to
judge the design "quality"?
Is design reseach just a beauty pageant of design and form following function? I
should hope not. Maybe it is a science of linking pictures out of design books
to meaningful text, icons that comfortably fit in with a nostalgic framework of
modernistic thought or at at its most radical, the art and crafts movement.
Heaven forbid if we design things that don't actually work!! Heck.
Rock on Starck, there are few other other designers who will be remembered as
well in the 22nd century. He is also one of the few to use a lot of recycled
material in a product that can/could actually be purchased - the SABA TV, using
wood chip material in the casing. Last thing - he can also do 'elegance' in a
mundane product, that few others can match.
Glenn
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