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What constitutes good design? 2017-06-23 04:35:54 Post No. 312315
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What constitutes good design? 2017-06-23 04:35:54 Post No. 312315
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Dieter Rams' second rule is that "Good design makes a product useful". Now consider the OP image, it's a Marshmallow sofa designed by George Nelson for Herman Miller. It retails for $5,700. It has an exhibit at MoMA, and an entry in Phaidon Design Classics
The catalog claims it's 'comfortable despite radical design', but after trying it in person I was very disappointed. The foam covered disks are incredibly flat and the entire frame is rigid. It feels like a sofa that wasn't designed with humans in mind.
If a simple product like a sofa fails to be comfortable then what good is it? Why did it win so many awards and so much praise? Why is this sofa 'better design' than a $200 Ikea Knopparp or whatever.
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Because someone can have a good idea like "Good design makes a product useful", and suck so bad at implementing it that they make a couch entirely out of barstool cushions.
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The top of any creative field is literally always rich faggots and jews circlejerking each other off—STOP looking up to them or trying to make sense of the situation if you ever hope to succeed.
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Most of today's graphic designers only know how to use adobe and don't really understand what "good design" is.
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>>312315
>Dieter Rams' second rule is that "Good design makes a product useful".
Here is an innovative concept for you: Words are just words, and you don't live in the 60s anymore. Dieter Rams is old and dying. So are his ideas.
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>>312338
How are they opposing, 90% of regular design is shit, the top 1% is shit, focus on the quality 9%, Sturgeon's Law.
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>>312333
Modern art was promoted by the CIA is is mostly a money laundering operation
Sounds like a meme but its true, btw the last time i checked the 2 highest selling paintings are ugly as shit and were bought by the "State of Quatar"
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>>312347
Seconded
Or, thirded, rather
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>>312333
It's true. There's no pretentious secret to obtuse top level shit, it's just insanely rich people fucking around to entertain themselves. People get confused when they take it at face value. It's not really about the physical objects, it's about the entertainment, and throwing away giant wads of cash on impractical shit.
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Pretty good to see a fairly interesting thread about industrial design get derailed by a bunck of monkeys who irrationally hate modern art, rich people, or both.
Im glad that you guys discovered the world's worst-kept secret: yes, art is bought and sold through a speculative market. Shocker. Too bad this does not relate to Nelson's furniture in any way, shape or form.
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>>312415
>OP asks what makes the sofa good and why did it win awards
>gets the answer
>you complain
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