Design Thought Leader

March 20, 2009

I don’t like the word still. I am working.

Eva Zeisal
Industrial designer and Ceramicist

Source: TIME Style & Design, August 2007

Labels: Work

March 19, 2009

Why is normal disappearing, and how do we replace it? I noticed that certain objects in my life performed so well they began to make their presence felt quite strongly. I thought there was something to be learned from them that we were ignoring in our search for sensational new forms.

Jasper Morrison
Furniture and Product Designer

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Labels: Normal

March 18, 2009

From Julien van Havere, Graphic Designer

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Source: Graphic Design Everyday

Labels: Defining Design

March 17, 2009

It’s like finding a character. When I’m watching somebody act, it’s a behaviour editorial function—I look at someone act, and I might say, ‘I don’t believe him when he says that.’ I don’t know why I don’t believe him, probably because the people that I’ve met, they don’t act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it. I also have rules of thumb about dialogue. For example, I feel that most people, when they speak, are lying. So, I’m looking at the eyes, I’m more interested in the body and seeing how comfortable they are saying what it is they are saying than specifically what they’re saying. I think the same thing is true of cinematography: you’re presented with a room and a scene. You have a feeling about this, maybe it’s Thanksgiving and it’s the end of the day, so there’s no direct sunlight coming in because the sun’s going down behind trees. So you kind of talk about it in those terms.

David Fincher
Filmmaker

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Source: Interview with David Fincher by Mark Salisbury

Labels: Character

March 16, 2009

When I first started to work, in order to proceed, I wrote down a verb list, just to enact certain processes, not to think about sculpture, but to think about how would I involve myself in relation to matter, in a way that would enable me to concentrate on the activity of making something. So I wrote down a simple verb list: To cut, To fold, To curve, To bend, To prop, whatever. And then I started enacting those verbs in relation to given materials, whether it was a piece of rubber, a piece of lead. And Phil Glass, a composer, and myself, would work together and take a given verb for a day, and with certain materials, would go through the processes of trying to form whatever we form.