FLUID insitu

I really could not resist posting this, think it is so beautiful.

A design called FLUID

Office furniture design is indeed fluid; changing with not only client, market and production influences but as designers continue to refine their creation.

The glass desk was part of that continual evolvement. The position of the leg structure or rather the direction of the detail elements following the first prototype caused me to reconsider this detail. In the distant past it would have been a matter of making a second prototype, the first had proven that the lateral stability was totally rigid.

Today with the use of computer generated renderings it is possible to create the visual image making further prototypes unnecessary. Following the reading of an article in SABS March news by Continuum’s “+” Brian Gillespie on Should Designers fear Design – Thinking MBA’s an article I enjoyed reading and concur totally with part of that article that said “it takes design education followed by experience, focus and maturity.” to add to maturity maybe “vision” for without vision can we really move forward. It is my opinion that the main purpose of any academic institution is to teach the student how to think in a particular direction, and record that thought using any suitable instrument.

My decision with the Desk design after seeing the second rendering – stay with the original idea.

Any interaction between academic institutions can only be good, each have their own focus and area of expertise, my concern would rather be not only the chasm between academia and industry but the use of the internet as a source of design inspiration where plagiarism is an easy option not only for the student but for the academic institution in their desire for positive academic statics.