Comments on: Cut and Paste by Kiki van Eijk at Secondome

By: Rudy

Rudy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:25:31 +0000

I see a pattern here. Memphis Milano was a movement to explore emotions and personality in design. It was a reaction to the rational functionality of bauhaus-like design that came to a dead end. In retrospect we value that movement for shaking up things, opening new directions in design. But with some exeptions it’s own esthetic value had a poor quality.
Have we come to a halt with our contemporary minimal design? Doesn’t every sofa, chair looks the same these days? Retro wasn’t the answer.
So again here’s a designer shaking up things. Trying to find new directions. But unlike Memphis this doesn’t arrive as a shockwave. We have seen similar try-outs. I think the emotional value in the design is too personal and fails to communicate to others. This is too much trying to look like Art that often demands you to explore the creators own metaphorical universe.
Cut and paste is just lacking the richness of such a universe and can never be Art. As design it let’s the user down in a disappointing way.

By: konallou

konallou — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:39:06 +0000

..alice in wonderland

By: komka

komka — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:59:18 +0000

i dont know.. its really fits that title.. cut and paste..

but how long can design dwell on cut and paste and when to start really thinking form and function in new ways..

aprrciate her trying but i find her more a sculpurer artist then designer..

By: eye +

eye + — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:45:55 +0000

this is like making expressionist art in the 50′s.. nostalgic about the past,.. personally i’m more fascinated by the present

By: Tijs

Tijs — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:41:58 +0000

That’s why it’s called cut and past