Monday, February 23, 2009

Kimono Chair

I got this from the DeZeen Magazine. It was featured during the Design Miami/Basel Collectors' Fair at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhien, Germany. The Kimono Chair is a concept where the design is formed from a flat piece of material. This design is created by a Japanese designer named, Tokujin Yoshioka. It is a magical transformation from being flat to something with volume.




Now I wonder what's my next inspiration. If the Japanese design is all about transformation and metamorphosis, then the future of design has no limits, no boundaries, not of the ordinary.


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Principles of Design

BALANCE 
- is the concept of visual equilibrium, and relates to our physical sense of balance.
- is a reconciliation of opposing forces in a composition that results in visual stability.

PROPORTION
- refers to the relative size and scale of the various elements in a design.
- is the relationship between objects, or parts, of a whole.

RHYTHM
- can be described as timed movement through space; an easy, connected path along which the eye follows a regular arrangement of motifs. 
- creates predictability and order in a composition.

EMPHASIS
- also referred to as point of focus, or interruption that marks the locations in a composition which most strongly draw the viewers attention.
- an interruption in the fundamental pattern 
or movement of the viewers eye through the composition, or a break in the rhythm.

UNITY
- is the underlying principle that summarizes all of the principles and elements of design. 
- refers to the coherence of the whole, the sense that all of the parts are working together to achieve a common result; a harmony of all the parts.