Instrumentality

Especially delicate
Precision work
Creative agency

Things become advanced when a work space is full of tools used to make more tools.

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

Gravity fed
Mechanical transference
Particle control

Relatively simple tasks can escalate into complex systems.

“But as long as external experiences flow on concordantly, they do not give us mere particulars, but connected particulars with a universal horizon of this cosmos.” – Edmund Husserl

Deep pile
Diagonal pliers
Indefinite generality

A large bin of related items are seeking redistribution.

“You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.” – Andy Warhol

Dock angle
Positional variance
Adaptation

When passing by the boat docks, things often suggest the romantic.

“Look like nothin’s gonna change, everything still remains the same; I can’t do what ten people tell me to do, so I guess I’ll remain the same.” – Otis Redding

Particular purpose
Practical assortment
Suspended accouterments

A well-designed organizational structure facilitates effectiveness. Simple processes are internally efficient.

“Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.” – Amit Kalantri

Sulfur dioxide
Fine particulate matter
Volatile organic compounds

Essential to a modern world economy devoted to supporting an enormous human population, commercial chemical manufacturing still operates as a smokestack industry releasing exhaust gases.

“The system-wide pollution controls Simplot will install will significantly reduce sulfur dioxide emissions, which can cause serious respiratory problems and exacerbate asthma.” – Cynthia Giles

Vertically mounted
Simple rope
Tire swing

In the middle of winter, an old-fashioned tire swing is ready for warmer weather. Sometimes the simplest things can bring great pleasure.

“And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.” – Jimmy Buffett

Silo lyricism
Sublime abundance
Accumulation distribution

Crafting space out of necessity tempered over time, subtle tonal and shape relationship elements are mixed in satisfying proportions. Driving by in a fleeting moment there is plenty of time, infinite in possibility.

“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

Rear-mounted
Air-cooled engine
Portmanteau

Cultural inertia influences advancement and detrimental experiences often reverberate more tenaciously than those more propitious. Although innovative by featuring a number of high tech ideas, several early Corvair design flaws undoubtedly changed the trajectory of GM’s product development towards the risk-averse culture that would dominate future generations of automobile design.

“The Corvair package of elegance, thrift and fun on the road has always been hard to beat.” – 1963 Chevrolet Corvair Brochure

Quarter glass
Articulation
Vent window

Featuring a latch and hinges allowing for an inward pivot rotation to funnel air into the cabin and cool the occupants, the small, triangular, front-side window is a vehicle feature now extinct. Although vent windows were once a central component of the driving experience, by the 1980’s automobile air conditioning gained popularity and front window vents disappeared from production.

“Although the front venting windows provide unmatched ventilation, air turbulence and leakage outweigh the benefits.” – Jim Dunne