Recently
I have resumed the possibility to use fractal graphic as pattern for
design doing right graphical manipulation so to obtain a texture
suitable for market. Fractals being more colorful don't like some
stylistic flavor of consumers. This is known to fractal artists that in
many years have done fractal competitions. Often the demand is for
vintage image rather than minimalist images according to modern flavor.
The same fractal art is art for limited persons and so there are few
artist known.
If so in the art we can find hard to meet the
flavor of clients, it's obvious in the design this fact is more evident
although some fractals with their forms are tied to old handcrafted
works of our grandmothers such as doilies for table or crocket works for
table cloth or bed blankets.
The accomplishment of a concept goes across a long way of many phase
until the arrive of the product design to market where a client can buy
it and the company can verify if the product collects the consent and
the expetation of clients.
If a design
competition represents a way to see a great deal of possible concept or
not, the accomplishment of a marketable concept is rather different. In
architecture it's known before of a preliminary project there is an
important step that it's to have a committment and a real demand of the
architectural project respondent to the necessity of a service for city
or people.
In the design it's seems similar but the planning of
an object is tied to the possible industrial production and if there
isn't the market or clients for that product it's useles to begin a path
for the concept design to the realized product.
To
plan, any object or in any scale, it's a complex operation. It supposes
a synthesis of function, technique, form and aesthetics. A project is
the functional response of some needs, but its formal construction
cannot derives necessary from function and neither from the technique
used.
Therefore we need to search ispiration
elsewhere, to ispire ourself we can use something aroud us or an image
stimulates our interest. In three of my concepts for design competitions
I have used as ispirational source the images generated from fractal
software. What interested me to show in these project was not only the
function and the technical response but also a solutive composition that
from a formal point of view it complied the required use searching a
form in the place not usual.
The experience of that moment was
more satisfying although the result of the competition, so I have pin
the possibility for next time to use fractals as inspirational source.
The characteristic of fractals to be organic and in nature as
territorial orogeny and vegetable or animal complex forms render the
graphics very good for pattern design or fashion sector but also as a
basis to obtain products tied to biomimicry.
From
the story of architecture we learn that for example Greek used the
nautilius or the leaf of acanthus to decorate the capitals of the
columns while during art Nouveau flowers and plants were used as
ispirational bases to decore stairs and wall.
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