That many, perhaps most, of the articles and utensils made at present for use are not genuinely aesthetic happens, unfortunately, to be true. But it is true for reasons that are foreign to the relation of the ‘beautiful’ and ‘useful’ as such.
“Wherever conditions are such as to prevent the act of production from being an experience in which the whole creature is alive and in which he possesses his living through enjoyment, the product will lack something of being aesthetic. No matter how useful it is for special and limited ends, it will not be useful in the ultimate degree – that of contributing directly and liberally to an expanding and enriched life.”
Hugh Dubberly on Paul Rand; Thoughts on Design, 1947; Design and the Play Instinct, 1956; A Designer’s Art, 1985 and on John Dewey Art as Experience, 1934
Great Ideas at ChiDM, 2018. Photo: The Office of Experience.
Lost Arts, 2017. Photo: Geoff Adler, Peyote.
Business of Design Week, Hong Kong, 2016. Photo: ChiDM.
Bus Rapid Transit, 2016.
