http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_classic

Prasant



--- In designindia@..., kulkarni kiran
<kiranpkulkarni@y...> wrote:
> Again, Design Classic is yet to arrive.
>
> As Uday says....if we hope the capitalistic cosumers,
> producers, marketeres take their time out for
> "creations" to be used with pleasure over a long
> time...arent we dreaming of our lost beautiful
> cultures and their sensitivity here?....i feel it
> will never happen! in the process of creating the
> ideal classic..
> Design will celebrate chaos, will celebrate
> corruption, will celebrate ambiguity, stress, speedy
> pace of our lives, money....
> This will be truly classic
> There are ofcourse many already done as i mentioned
> earlier....
> A classic software outsourced from USA
> A classic car designed in India
> A classic computer device designed in the dark labs of
> India
> They are everywhere
>
> Kiran Kulkarni
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> --- sanandan <sandy@t...> wrote:
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> >
> > >Uday Wrote:
> > >The classics will evolve when in different sectors
> > of the economy the
> > designers, the producers and the marketers will gain
> > sensitivity to the end
> > user experience and drive the design concepts from
> > that sensitivity.<
> >
> > Thanks Uday, This very well defines perhaps one
> > very important way a design
> > classic can evolve. This raises two questions in my
> > mind:
> >
> > 1. Are there other ways designers have worked and
> > evolved Design classics
> > world wide?
> > 2. Do you intent to say in your comments above that
> > the first Indian design
> > classic is yet to arrive?? (Designed by "designers")
> >
> > What do you guys think??
> >
> > Sandy
> > Sanandan Sudhir
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: designindia@...
> > [mailto:designindia@...]
> > On Behalf Of Uday Dandavate
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 12:31 PM
> > To: designindia@...
> > Subject: Re: [designindia] ???
> >
> > Design is not defined by the sector of industry it
> > is churned from or by
> > the type of products but by the desire to humanize
> > the process of creating
> > the objects, information and environments of
> > everyday use.
> > The realities on the ground in the West and in our
> > world are different.
> > Levels of technology in a given product (e.g. a high
> > tech medical
> > product) may determine the universality of treating
> > the technology, but the
> > congnitive structure and emotional needs of people
> > in different culture may
> > impart their own considerations on the design
> > approach. The point is to
> > evolve a design through intimate understanding of
> > the person who will use
> > it. In India, the craftsman has done it long ago,
> > until the crafts too
> > became the victim of commercialization and mass
> > production and got removed
> > from the hands of people who had intimate knowledge
> > of the community they
> > served with their hands. The owner of an export
> > house who mass produces
> > products for exports at the dictates of a buyer has
> > minimal empathy for the
> > person whose house it would ultimately endow. There
> > is very little
> > connection between the person who shops in the
> > emporia of Delhi and the
> > craftsman who creates the products that are placed
> > there.
> >
> > The big gap is in making the connection between the
> > hands of the person who
> > produced and the hearts of the person who uses the
> > products of everyday use.
> > I do know from traveling around the world that
> > designers tend to be
> > universally self serving. We meet each-other at
> > conferences and evolve a
> > form language and a value system of our own. How
> > many designers, no matter
> > which sector they belong to, get an opportunity to
> > closely obsever and learn
> > from the everyday experience of people for who they
> > design? Belive me, even
> > in more advanced economies, designer believe they
> > can imagine the experience
> > of the end users and are impatient towards the
> > process of internalizing the
> > end user experience.
> >
> > The classics will evolve when in different sectors
> > of the economy the
> > designers, the producers and the marketers will gain
> > sensitivity to the end
> > user experience and drive the design concepts from
> > that sensitivity.
> >
> > Uday
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