While studying and living in Seoul, South Korea I explored and immersed myself into the design, art and architecture. Inspired, I wanted to create a form that is a combination of my favorite parts of design. The unrestricted medium that art gives means you don’t need to worry about building codes, ergonomics, product market, or manufacturability. You can just focus on the design and the viewers can pull their own assumptions about the project that are not grounded in bias because of the products they already know. I studied architecture before industrial design and my favorite architects were bold, and exuberant their designs rejected the idea of less is more, or form follows function. While they are important lessons these do not resinate with the times. Modern design was a reaction to mass manufacturing and the invention of air conditioning meant a decrease in the unique vernacular design. Now architecture is more romanticized and serves more than just function; they are experiences of space. Post modern design is highly ambigious but to me it is a reflection of society. As modernism was a reflection of our industrial complex. Post modernism will be a reflection of our return to nature, either by designing our future infastructure to live like a symbiotic cycle or our degredation and reclaimation by nature itself.
