GSAPP ‘18
Part of the Verti|School|Playground Study Series
Instructors : Dan Wood & Maurizio Bianchi Mattioli
Composite Workflows - Collection
Instructor : Lukasz Kowalczyk
“A pastry crimper is a small kitchen tool which contains a relatable size as an everyday silverware, such as a knife. This relatively modern utensil is used to close and secure the side of various foods. At first, it was created to seal pies, and later the wheel evolved so it could also be used for any type of food that has a filling on the inside and dough on the outside.
The main part about the crimper is the location where the most exciting moment flourishes. The moment where the utensil is in contact with the dough creating a non-rigorous design on the pastry. The formation of the handle is not important, as it is just a diachronic variable on the design. The originality of the design does not contain a study on how this object may have a predetermined shape. In the other hand, it is an evolving thinking process that comes from trial and error, and the implementation of the one’s feelings and interests.
Integrating one’s feelings into the design process is something as designers and critics tried to avoid since we do not want a personal judgment. However, the implementation of feelings into the design process is unstoppable and radically changes what and how we design what we want to design. As rational thoughts are placed aside, the feelings take over as the hand and body form the object. The thought and the feeling of the designer contain divergent complexions as both have distinct comprehensive orders and implicit consistencies.
The design contains exploration of the tools and techniques used to fabricate it. Sometimes antique implementations, just as the marriage between the rounded file and the hard material, become the most useful tool for the fabrication of simple conscious mind activities. As the simple tool moves in a repetitive manner, an imprinted pocket is arrayed in a radial or linear line as the teeth of the crimper are made. The location, dimensionality and depthless of this pockets are not extremely precise due that the design is an extension of the irrational thinking of the craftsman.
At this point out conscious mind is active as we are alive but the design becomes naïve and simplistic as one is doing the same movements over and over again. The understanding of the object is found at the completion of the teeth are created and the object is assembled for the formation of the fold, seal, and crimp of the dough.”
Conflict + Time Series
Instructor : Jonathan Miller
Conflict + Time Series
Instructor : Jonathan Miller
An interpretation of the remarkable Argentinian tango composition, Balada para un Loco. Music by Astor Piazolla. Lyrics by Horacio Ferrer.
Conflict + Time Series
Instructor : Jonathan Miller
