Kinetic Design and the Animation of Products
by Ben Hopson for core77. An article about designing kinetic objects driven by “new technologies, new materials and increasingly sophisticated consumer tastes all demand colossal transformations. [..] Because motion is so elemental and so completely unexplored in design aesthetics, there is no limit to how it will be capitalized upon in the future. Kinetic Design will lead to new kinds of architecture, food, and chemical processes just as easily as it will lead to a better DVD player aperture.” But how do we get there? How can we design movement in 3-dimensional objects? How do we learn from science fiction? What is the language of movement, what is the vocabulary for motion, what are methods for sketching motion, how to record motion? Article includes a series of videos with kinetic sketches [1] [2] [3]
via toxi delicious, related Arthur Ganson, Theo Jansen, Jean Tinguley
