Comments on: Polygon Crash lamp by Flip Sellin

By: asdfghjkl

asdfghjkl — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:47:05 +0000

so….from the arguements above about computer driven aesthetics, we see that today designers can have either:

a. Blobby Zaha whipped cream
b. Facetted polygon shapes

Can I please suggest that these are incredibly limited (and Hackneyed) design styles? I find both incredibly ugly and rather boring.

People have made things by hand since stone age times that do not fit these two styles. It is only (unneccessary) creative subservience to technology that produces these type of designs.

There are an infinite number of other ways to make things – and yes that includes mass produced things. Not everything has to be crunched by our (metaphorically) beige friends. Get down the pub boys. Or the museum.

By: headplow

headplow — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:11:36 +0000

Actually I find this light visually interesting. Of course we’re all critics aren’t we? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder children.

By: townnwot

townnwot — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:24:38 +0000

huh? are you for realzzz? this piece is a 5minute rhino job. if you know, you would know.

‘I’m glad to see designers finally realizing….’ if you think this is fresh then you are seriously seriously out of touch.

By: recon::decon

recon::decon — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:04:04 +0000

“in a world as over-designed as ours”

Let me guess, you would prefer the blob and whipped cream world of Zaha?

I would be interested to see the shadow and light patterns this would create in a dark room. I’m glad to see designers finally realizing that whipped cream and blob forms only look good in the computer. Nice job.

By: ste

ste — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:25:39 +0000

in a world as over-designed as ours we’ll start to honour the aesthetic in ugly things