In response to earlier posts -
one creates CAD models, one creates sketches - one does not 'make a
drawing' - (granted my 3 year old might).
one makes 'sketch' models, foam card models and one makes prototypes and
initial design models.
The point - mostly missed by the list - suggesting one 'makes a CAD
drawing, etc'. is that the act of making is a totally 'different mode of
creation' in a design process.
That mode of design and creation has been mostly lost by professional
design - that was my point. Sending a stereo lithograph file and opening a
Fedex package does not replace hand manufacture.
The Arts & Crafts movement, Ruskin et al knew this and maybe Sony and
today's big companies realise it too. I believe the jewelry and luxury
goods industries realise this too.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/sony/sony-gets-into-bed-with-a-bunch-of-italian-master-craftsmen-+-and-this-is-the-result-260484.php
There is something very different about the act of creation - when fully
understanding the medium in which one works. The medium must shape the
design. Glass behave like glass - not a NURBS surface, ceramics take only
certain glazes, etc.
Creating artefacts by designers that have no contact with the intrinsic
material process is an area ripe for discussion -
To the next point - if we can all use a CAD package such as Google's
Sketch Up - should we all create artefacts with our home based 'fabbers'?
-
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/19ad302897772110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
A suggestion, is that if society as a whole is responsible for the design
with such technology, then we will again loose an appalling kind of
aesthetic - weirdly reminiscent of the 1851 Great Exhibition....when
aesthetically untrained creators were let loose on society.
http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=12 (please
note: there is some humor to that link)
Finally, I believe the ancient Egyptians could create perfect flatness -
in a process we still do not fully understand - although milling and
machining are very old methods - as is brick mass manufacture..
http://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/egypt/articles/cdunn.html
Best,
Glenn
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