Functioning art
Purposive appearance
Feature arrangement
Even when form follows function as the primary consideration, aesthetics enters into the creative process. The prompt to design something different within a familiar artifact category results from the combined experience of all the previous examples.
“The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.” – J.G. Ballard
Traveling carnival
Chance and skill
Game operator
Public displays of proficiency at shooting and winning are here proffered. Potential profit results from pricing participation far above the value of any obtainable prize. By promoting the trading-in of multiple small insignificant prizes for a larger worthless prize, continued play is actively encouraged. The real game is to instill desire among customers.
“Happiness is a carnival game. It’s never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal.” – Dov Davidoff
Spatial positions
Temporal periods
Apparent events
Early morning light shines on seasonal change, intensifying the transcendence of time beyond substance that nevertheless affects nature. Some spatial positions repeatedly capture attention and help to determine the character of apparent quintessence.
“In sense-perception nature is disclosed as a complex of entities whose mutual relations are expressible in thought without reference to mind, that is, without reference either to sense-awareness or to thought.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Stuffed characters
Taxidermy suggestion
Anxiety reassurance
As pretend creatures are on display and waiting for adoption in a nearby street carnival, overcrowding effects emotional cartoon selection criteria.
“It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.” – E.B. White
Conceivability fields
Immediately available
Fanciful speculations
Across the green fields and into the twilight, the fleeting present coincides in the fluidity of inner life. In an uninterrupted transition, the continuation of what precedes folds into what follows as succession without separation in conscious duration.
“It is memory, but not personal memory, external to what it retains, distinct from a past whose preservation it assures; it is a memory within change itself, a memory that prolongs the before into the after, keeping them from being mere snapshots appearing and disappearing in a present ceaselessly reborn.” – Henri Bergson
Eminent fashion
Producing reasons
Sufficient explanation
Moving fast through the urban environment, eye-level design elements are quickly extracted as a phenomenon of immediate intuition, devoid of rational reflection or close examination.
“A definition, if it is to be called perfect, must explain the inmost essence of a thing, and must take care not to substitute for this any of its properties.” – Baruch Spinoza
Sunlight adores
That stretch ahead
Destiny’s highway
Catching reflected light at an advantageous instant, the journey continually provides immediate opportunity under variable conditions. Attractive ideas are occasionally conceived during a state of physical stimulation.
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
Center Street
Always a fiesta
Flavor combos
On the street, a well-balanced frontal approach tickles an observer’s attention. Having the right amounts of different constituent visual ingredients may carry over to cuisine wrapped in any variety of thin flatbread made from finely ground wheat flour.
“So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food, and drink beer and make friends? That’s the question. If we can do that on a broader scale, I think we’ll come out of it all right.” – Sandra Day O’Connor
Vitalist aspect
Unity experience
Subjectivist paradigm
The landscape is a lucid relationship of nature and culture as a visual expression of the continuum of time. While the soil and stone that substantiate a panorama may be ancient, the conspicuous vegetation has only recently emerged.
“The mind swells out to fill the entire landscape, becoming so diffuse in the process that one loses the ability to keep it fastened to the physical self.” – Haruki Murakami
Categorical concept
Functional aesthetic
Convention interaction
Seeking abstractions as a function of cultural history, at the vintage car show there is always a certain amount of nostalgic association involved.
“I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that’s the job of art.” – Andre Dubus III