Caught in an oscillating dialogue between brothers, Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec, the designs put forth by the Bouroullec Studio capture the integration of art and technology, and the respect for consumer culture. This integration can be seen throughout their collections and different works, which range from art, architecture, and product solutions for the everyday user. Despite the broad range of work, common themes serve to tie each piece back to the brothers’ shared love for flexibility and experimentation. In contrast to contemporary 21st century designers, the Bouroullecs consistently craft products unadulterated by preconceived notions of how or why something works the way it does. By analyzing a short survey of the brothers’ work, one is able to understand how their disregard for traditional principles and eagerness to expand the abilities of materials and the machine allow for products that are unique and fully applicable to the modern age.
Brief Biography
The French-born duo, Ronan (1971) and Erwan (1976), both studied at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs in Paris and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Cergy Pontoise. Not long after graduating, Ronan began designing his own products with the help of his brother who was still studying at the time.1 By the late ‘90s, the brothers had accomplished creating their own design firm, Bouroullec Studio, and were well on their way to success in the design spectrum. Their success in many ways can be contributed to their complementing personalities – the artsy side of Ronan and the experimental and technical advances of Erwan - as well as their shared goals of changing how design can be interacted with well beyond the design process.
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...ght actually use an object out of the studio setting results in products that are applicable and adaptable to any type of user.
Design Prospect
In many ways, the attributes that set the brothers apart from other designers are the same
aspects that will contribute to their success in the future. Their regard for products as solutions as well as works of art makes each piece desirable. In addition, by designing for the everyday person they are reaching a market that is ever-present. Products that enhance everyday life through flexible systems will also expand their lifespan, discouraging the user from throwing out the piece over time. If the brothers continue to look at design problems with the curiosity and innovation they have so far exhibited, their names are bound to be at the forefront of the design movement as we move towards more modern and futuristic ideas.
Lawson, Bryan. How Designers Think: The Design Process Demystified. 4th ed. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2006.
Crooked Beak of Heaven Mask is a big bird-figure mask from late nineteenth century made by Kwakwaka’wakw tribe. Black is a broad color over the entire mask. Red and white are used partially around its eyes, mouth, nose, and beak. Its beak and mouth are made to be opened, and this leads us to the important fact in both formal analysis and historical or cultural understanding: Transformation theme. Keeping that in mind, I would like to state formal analysis that I concluded from the artwork itself without connecting to cultural background. Then I would go further analysis relating artistic features to social, historical, and cultural background and figure out what this art meant to those people.
One of the initial of most common reasons why designs and products fail is due to the lack of having a set product vision. Many designers often chase behind the factor of having a good feature for their product design and neglecting the main idea of having a set vision and strategic thinking. Also, another reason for a design to fail is the lack of learning for the culture of the product. A good design can be created w...
With his down-the-rabbit-hole approach to design and obsessive attention to detail, Wes Anderson, writer, director and auteur, is best known for his highly stylized movies. His extremely visual, nostalgic worlds give meaning to the stories in his films, contrary to popular critical beliefs that he values style over substance. Through an analysis of his work, I plan to show that design can instead, give substance to style.
Traditionally, Dansk Designs followed a strategy of differentiation. When a firm follows this strategy, they create differences in the firm’s product or service by creating something that is perceived as unique and valued by customers. Differentiation can take many forms, including prestige or brand image, which Dansk decided to implement. Their product line consists of eight product categories, which include flatware, china, linen, glass, decorator cookware, and wooden bowls and trays. Their products are of high quality and are highly priced. Dansk was able to achieve a differentiation advantage because their price premiums exceeded the extra costs of being unique. Dansk is able to create these unique products because of the talented designers they employ, including Jens Quisrgaard, Niels Refsgaard, and Gunnar Cyren. Another competitive advantage of a strategy of differentiation is the ability to deal with supplier power. There is a certain amount of status associated with being the supplier to a producer of differentiated products. Dansk’s principal supplier, Richard Nissen, has enjoyed working with Dansk because he believes they have been able to “preserve the handcrafted nature of the products”.
Wicked Problems in Design Thinking Author(s): Richard Buchanan Source: Design Issues, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring, 1992), pp. 5-21 Published by: The MIT Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/
‘Lost in translation’ happens more frequently during the rate of globalization. The misreading of design languages is not just an issue among layperson, designers also been affected during the international cooperation. Naturally, there are gaps existing between different cultures (Jones, 2011). For example, the masterpieces of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa considered as the portraits of ideological conflicts and exhibits individual’s sacrifices for feudalism. But on their Western re-making versions, the heroism and anarchism were been emphasized instead. Just like the differences between Samurai and cowboy, design languages and signals are preforming in different way from east to west.
With constant partnership of a global network of designers and local talent, the Company has expanded to offer playfully smart products that are loved by families and children globally. The term “playful” means developing products that have fun and engaging a style that children are drawn to but that parents can as well appreciate for their aesthetic value. The term “smart” means developing products that possesses superior functionality to safety support children’s developmental wants and extend the life product through several uses. Everything done by P’kolino Company aims at taking the design philosophy to clients home. In summary, the Company is continuously creating new products since they believe that all aspects of life can use a little smart playfulness and with lots of enthusiasm and the constant support friends and family, they intend to show it.
Marxist criticism concerns itself with class differences and the modes of production that produce oppression. Class conflict will be reflected in different forms of art because the marxist school believes that everything in a society is based on the current modes of production. A change to the mode of production will bring change to politics, law, philosophy, religion, and art. Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin are three of the most notable critics of Marxism. They write about the production of cultural subject in capitalist societies, agreeing that reproduction of art has drastically changed due to mechanization. Horkheimer and Adorno’s The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception and Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction are two texts that to depict how technology, the modes of production, have allowed the mechanical reproduction of works of art to change our culture society. Horkheimer and Adorno evolve from the works of Benjamin to to create the idea of the business ideology being formed from this mass production and consumption.
Tortella, Neil. "The Remedy for the Sad State of Design, 2012 (Poll Results)." GraphicDesign.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2014. .
Although we considerably live in a ‘post-modern’ world, many of the technologies and principles involved in designing and engineering them are draw influence from the innovative culture of the modern era. This essay aims to explore the contextual ideas behind the modern movement, how it influenced today’s artists and thinkers, how ‘Modernization, Modernity, Modernism’ shaped the world we live in.
Hegeman, J. (2008). The Thinking Behind Design. Master Thesis submitted to the school of design, Carngie Mellon University. Retrieved from: http://jamin.org/portfolio/thesis-paper/thinking-behind-design.pdf.
Relationship Between Art And Society: Mimesis. The relationship between art and society: Mimesis as discussed in the works of Aristotle, Plato, Horace and Longinus. The relationship between art and society in the works of Plato is based upon his idea of the world of eternal Forms. He believed that there is a world of eternal, absolute and immutable Forms (the world of the Ideal) and thought that this is proven by when man is faced with the appearance of anything in the material world, his mind is moved to a remembrance of the Idea or an absolute and immutable version of the thing he sees.
‘You cannot hold a design in your hand. It is not a thing. It is a process. A system. A way of thinking.’ Bob Gill, Graphic Design as a Second Language.
Human’s have always struggled to express themselves. Art, is considered by many to be the ultimate form of human expression. Many assume that art has a definition, but this is not the case. Art, it can be said, is “in the eye of the beholder.” This simply means that what you consider art, someone else would not. Art is part of a person’s internal emotions, which signifies why different people see art as different things. Every type of culture and era presents distinctive and unique characteristics. Different cultures all have different views of what art can, and would be, causing art itself to be universally renowned throughout the world.