Mercury Eight Sedan
Ponton appearance
Modern precursor
Envelope styling
Defunct automobile brands live on as object artifacts.
“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.” – Robert L. Peters
Special
Uniquely distinguished
Particular interest
Unusual quality
This art deco detail is extracted from the streamlined Buick Special produced in 1937. Sleek and rounded to defined speed and power, such functional objects matched the new needs of new times. New times quickly become old times.
“I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.” – Ina Garten
Throw Back
Surface return
Reflected impression
Lingering trace
At an interface between two different materials, continuously curved polished surfaces divert a wavefront of light in heterogeneous specular directions. Radiation remains symmetrical under bent contact conditions.
“The way these pictures were taken show a great deal of systematicity, reflecting a culture that is systematic in its approach.” – Josh Rogin
Star Chief
Top trim package
Foundation platform
Body style
The hubcap detail here forms a visual complex of futuristic possibly in an abstraction ensemble. As a beautiful mirror polished disc, with concentric rings around a command bridge central axis, this purely decorative object evokes thoughts of flying saucers.
“The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.” – Marshall McLuhan
Material Intention
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
Design Object
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
Refinery
Production facility
Chemical engineering
Unit processes
In terms of economic impact and environmental ambience, the oil and gas industry is one of the prominent industries in the Pelican State. Details matter in energy expenditure.
“The revealing that rules in modern technology is a challenging, which puts to nature the unreasonable demand that it supply energy that can be extracted and stored as such.” – Martin Heidegger
Indetermination
Enigmatic way
Transference function
Point of access
A lucid and authentic penetration into the vacuousness of all finite evidence is the minimum prerequisite needed to receive an intellectual intuition.
“In time the mind comes to reflect on its own operations about the ideas got by sensation, and thereby stores itself with a new set of ideas, which I call ideas of reflection.” – John Locke
Mechanical Adipose
Fuel provision
Energy repository
Future use
Our descriptions of existence are necessarily insufficient, circular, or contradictory. Such inherent limitations of understanding do not render actuality any less real.
“Caches aren’t architecture, they’re just optimization.” – Rob Pike