Do young children who seek the conceptual kind of an artifact weigh the plausibility that a current function constitutes the function intended by the object designer?
By creating a description that manipulates model fragments as first-class objects, designers' work of model creation and maintenance can be greatly simplified.
The site promotes the swapping of skills, space, labor and art objects; designers on a budget will find an expanding list of offerings, including custom wallpaper, vintage fabrics and lessons in soap making and upholstery.
(The show was about design objects by artists, and, he said, the Cooper-Hewitt should stick to design objects by designers).
The unbleached canvas beach tote with contrast trim is an icon of summer style, a simple yet effective object that designers mess with at their peril.
"Nata vintage" — meaning, roughly, born vintage — "stems from a reflection on the eternal return of the 'old' as a recurrent tendency of the market," Marco Popolo, one of the object's designers, explained by e-mail.
"It's often the first type of object a designer works on," says maverick artist Ora Ito.
The inaugural exhibition features the work of Domeau & Pérès, the French master craftsmen whose product line includes leather-covered furniture and objects by designers like Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Martin Szekely and Marc Newson, as well as a bicycle by the creative multitasker Pharrell Williams.
Having begun by producing furniture that resembled his Adaptives, by the late 1980s West was replicating the familiar forms of chairs, tables and other domestic objects that designers and artisans had developed over the years.
