Wide mouth
Milk bottles
Home delivery
Farm to bottle: it’s more than a motto.
“In the 1950s, glass was becoming too hard to manage and keep up with. It made the crates heavy, there were a lot of damages when transporting the bottles to and from home deliveries, and the quality factor of making sure they were properly cleaned before re-using became too much of a problem.”Charlie Turner –
Dimensional form
Physically present
Considerations
Sometimes the design process is occupied with acknowledging obscure ideas outside the field of practicality.
“What is created under the pressure of inspiration must ultimately be subjected to an inspection and possibly be aesthetically improved.” – P. A.Brandt
Bullet-shaped screw tops
Perforated dispensing
Nickel plated steel
It is fun to find objects promoted as valuable antiques that are still manufactured and available for purchase new.
“Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.” – Barbara Taylor Bradford
Watertight windows
Hull structure
Interior illumination
Ship shape and rusting.
“You’re a cavity in my oasis, You’re a porthole in my sea, You’re a stretch of the imagination every time you look at me.” – Charlotte M. Liebel
Material elements
Fragmenting space
Sequestration
Things are sometimes found in unexpected places.
“Poetry is what he turns to these days, finding in its fragmentation the proper echo of the disintegrating world.” – Lauren Groff
Inferred adjustment
Innumerable possibilities
Physical object perception
Framing and extraction are important elements of abstraction.
“It is an essential characteristic of a physical object that its situation is an active condition for its perception..”– Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Railroad car
Crew accommodations
End attached
Technology has rendered the caboose an unnecessary end-of-train termination.
“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Fishing vessel
Commercial profit
Reduced sustainability
Industrial fishermen harvest a broad spectrum of aquatic animals.
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” -Henry David Thoreau
Machine device
Converting energy
Mechanical force
The potential to achieve physical movement may be corrosion frozen.
“The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.” — Michael Hastings
Lamppost
Breakwater
Reflections
A multi-use utilitarian structure found in Newport News offers timelessness.
“Completed in 2008, the City of Newport News received a grant of $440,833 to create the fishing pier on top of the existing wavescreen.” – Michael D. Poplawski