CNN asked 10 of the
world's top designers (amongst them Nendo's Oki Sato, Patricia
Urquiola, Tom Dixon and Yves Behar) to show us
the design today
that provides a window into the world of tomorrow.
Of Instruments &
Archetypes was nominated by
Chi-wing Lee. Read
the full article here:
Shape
of things to come: A peek at tomorrow from today's top
designers or click
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"Try asking someone in the industry how many "design weeks" you can
fit into a 30-day month. In the wake of April's towering Milan
design week, major creative shows, with attendances in the tens of
thousands, arrive faster than Sundays. June brought the buzzing San
Francisco Design Week, DMY International Design Festival in Berlin,
Los Angeles Design Festival, and the 10th edition of Design Miami/
Basel, plus innumerable other aspirant events. As July rolls in,
we'll see as much again: exhibition halls will fill and empty with
trade stalls bursting from new furniture, tech, homewares, and
countless unclassifiable creations. And, with each, promises: that
this design is radical, disruptive, and unique. The design's
world's superabundance of creativity and creation can make it hard
to tell the signal -- those genuine, standout developments that are
driving forward progress and are set to shape the future we live in
-- from the noise, of gimmicks and fad. So to clear things up,
we've recruited 10 of the world's top designers to be your guides
-- from Tom Dixon to Oki Sato -- showing us the design of today
that they believe is a bellwether of tomorrow. Chi-wing Lee
Chi-wing Lee, 49, is the founder of Hong Kong-based Milk Design. He
selects the Of Instruments and Archetypes, a set of instruments
that can build digital models from real-world measurements, in real
time. It's the result of a collaboration between Unfold design
studio, interaction designer Penny Webb, and research lab
Kirschner3D. Today's design world is full of possibilities with
technologies, but difficulties also lie in how to make good input
for what purpose. We do not want to make things without good value
for our future. It might be useful to discover some answers from
our past , the wisdom of how our ancestors have dealt with the
nature. They could be some guidelines of directions in design for
the future."
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