When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan’s “form follows function,” what they meant was, form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it, because there is no effort to spare for error. Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives.
Designing a particularly difficult prop right now (no right angles, very organic) and it’s giving me fits. The design of it isn’t particularly difficult, but the execution is driving me nuts. How to make something with no right angles out of basic, cheap materials that are only right angles? I’m having fun, but the moment of execution (the prop or my own) is drawing nearer. I’ll be able to post more in March when all secrets are out.