Form Follows Idea: An Introduction to Design Poetics

by Maxine Naylor, Ralph Ball

Form Follows Idea examines the work and ideas of influential designers Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor. Their reflections and propositions here provide a refreshing and provocative approach to design, touching on issues such as craftsmanship, modernism, and the role of nature and commercialism in design. Ball and Naylor's work explores ideas of space beyond the physical object. Their concern with cultural and social values is manifest in the form and (dis)function of their designs and appropiations of everyday objects, such as chairs, lights and shelving. Form Follows Idea features their approach to these objects through cultural, ecological and visual narratives. As such, this book provides a playful yet critical re-evaluation of familiar forms and typologies. The work in Form Follows Idea is further expanded upon here in an essay by Jeremy Myerson, Director of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art.

Genres: Design

127 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2005

Reviews

[Michael Grove · Rating 5 out of 5]

Post-rationalism IS a WAY of THINKING, typifying Postmodern theory, which accepts IDEAS, IDEOLOGIES and PHILOSOPHIES as INTELLECTUAL TOOLS rather than TRUTHS • also trusting to PROCESSES BEYOND the RATIONAL, such as INSTINCT, ASSOCIATION and COINCIDENCE.
Maxine Naylor and Ralph Ball

JUST CONSIDER moving on from the Bauhaus concept of FORM FOLLOWING FUNCTION to that which Maxine Naylor and Ralph Ball have so relevantly proposed as an introduction to DESIGN POETICS, namely FORM FOLLOWS IDEA • particularly from the perspective of Eric and I's utilisation of Facebook as a SURFACE to PROJECT IDEAS • in the context of [IT] starting with the ONE and finishing with the MANY !!!???

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