Material/Form

  

Just reading about Tom Dixon inspired me to look at design and shape in a new way.  I feel like his way of viewing materials and interaction with form is a lot like investing the elements of process.  By this, I mean looking at the nature characteristics and exploring what developments may arise to end in a extraordinary outcome.

In an interview he once said:

"I think designer now are much more concerned about the shape of the object and their won personal evolution within it.  And I think a good designer is somebody who manages to put together all the elements-an understanding of materials and a belief in improving functionality-then puts the shapes on last as a result of all those experiments."  This quote made me think of the way Kahn talks about REALIZATION and INTUITION.  Designers all have an underline knowledge of material and form but we test that to see what great outcomes may arise.