Showing posts with label craft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label craft. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Thursday, June 19, 2008

The Wooden Mirror by Daniel Rozin





The Wooden Mirror is an example of interactive design that uses old and new, pixel and physical, technology and craft.  It's like a Sparkletts truck with artificial intelligence.  


I've always been fond of Sparkletts trucks.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Craft




"Don't make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don't hesitate to make it beautiful."

Posted are images of a bowl and a container.  The bowl is a pinch pot that I made, a basic pottery technique where you use your fingers to pinch the shape of the bowl.  I glazed the bowl by holding it upside down and dipping it in glaze.  My five fingerprints are left on the glaze.  Those fingerprint marks underscore both the process of glazing a bowl and the act of holding a bowl with our hands as we use it.  The container is a closed-form technique of pottery.  The "belly-button" is the natural form that occurs when the form is closed.  I wanted to be honest with my process and not cover up the "belly-button", but I also wanted to relate the spot where the form was closed to the act of opening and closing the box itself.