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I watched the Objectified a second time at home. Many things come up to my head and I think I should try to write them out.

Jonathan Ive, who is the senior VP industrial design Apple, once said, I quote

 
You look at things and ask, Why is it like that and not like this? And so in that sense, you are constantly designing.

To be a designer means that you should be able to constantly find things around us that is wrong; that is not comfortable. Nomatter how ordinary the things are. Then start to think ways to improve it. more »

Hechima 5 is a stool made from paper (vulcanized fibre)

(Screen shot from http://www.ryujinakamura.com/)

The words below are from <Invisible Forms> by Tokujin Yoshioka

“I find cooking and design have a lot in common. And the style of design in a country is connected to the style of its cooking more closely than we think. Italian cooking and design and French food and design are good examples. I am not sure yet whether Chinese design is as  fiery as its cooking, but i have the feeling that it will become more appealing in the future as the country has such great culture and amazing food.

We can say the same thing about Japan. Japanese food, take Tofu for example, looks very simple and maybe not so appetizing at first sight but you cannot discern the immense amount of work that is put into it once you ate it. You will realize the depth of it which cannot be seen at first sight. Even with sushi, you might first think that not much preparation is needed as most of the ingredients are raw fish. In reality, however, sushi needs a lot of careful and thorough preparation. more »

 

“家具的原始雏形本来就是任何一件自然物件，被不同的人赋予不同功能。
我们习以为常的家具是否已经被简单而粗暴地定义归类秩序化?单一直白的功能使其失去了自我表达以及和人的互动?

表象与真相的距离有多远？”

—徐甜甜

Images and text from Xutiantian’s Blog