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July 21, 2005
Summer Upkeep
Okay, so it has been a while since the last update.
Been busy with USF's 150th aniversary.
As you can see, some pretty crazy stuff. Unfortuneately, no assembly pictures. Before that grid was put up top, me and andother guy had to lash every single intersection point...12x12 grid so appx 144 points...with copper wiring. My arms were getting really cut up fabricating this thing. Not to mention we had to clean the bamboo because it was shipped in from two places: one in Marin for the little 8ft shoots / secondly those big bamboo timbers that measeure 12' with a 4-6" diameter.
Right now, working on a metal version but the opposite. Where this is a negative of USF's bell; the metal piece will be a positive. Lemme just say -cut and drill fest-!
For me, the boundaries between art and Industrial design are pretty distinct...sometimes, occasionally, often. And this is a conversation i have been having a lot with some Graphic designers... granted they are not ID people but they for sure are not in the dark about what ID is. I bring this up because of what I have been doing for USF recently. Yes, I would call this artwork - whether I had worked on it or had come across it one day. However there are some pieces of art that truely are designed or are created from feeling. I believe that Da Vinci is kind of a melter of boundaries. His paintings are some of the best artwork to survive from antiquity. Yet his pieces are deliberatly put together to guide your eye = form follows function, right? The form is his painting and the funtion is your observation of it.
Now wait just a second...have we properly defined design, art, form, or function. No. And I am not about to, that would be too painful to read or write in a big ugly block of text.
Going back to the original point of what I am doing. I am making these instillations for the 150th ann. Now they are art but I am helping to design and experience in the mind and the body...>especially for the bamboo piece. You can interact with it, it is symbolic, it creates feeling from movement and material, but also it actually does represent something----almost monumental (sculptural?). So is this art or design? I think it is art that has been specifically designed to make people feel, think, and remember.
Surely not industrial design because there was no research, no observations or interviews, no charts, no persona's,......wait.... there were sketches(numerous ones at that too), and there were models.....but there was no packaging, or any kind of mass duplication. Do we see how boundaries can get a little blurred here. The bamboo project is art but surely has some footing in (industrial?)design
Posted by Will at July 21, 2005 09:34 PM
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Great project man. Turned out awesome. :)
Posted by: P.J. Onori at July 28, 2005 09:25 PM