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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Design Idea

The accumulation of abandoned ideas can over a long period of time manifest.
By the allocation of a site to place abandoned ideas, this catalysts the collection of more design junk.
Inevitably, this trash space is manifested with design junk, this swollen volume displaces the flow of the working environment,consequently-as in the reading of Pirig, R. M: Lila, an inquiry into morals-it becomes neccessary to organise the design space.
By performing this manual task, design junk is transformed so that it becomes accessible to a broader interpretation and applicable to new sources of ideas. This metamorphosis converts junk into a rebirth of ideas.
I applied this concept into my design from the idea of bacteria that is treated, processed and developed so that the resulting subject is converted into medicine (like penicillin), so that the result is beneficial.

Design In context

Design in working environment

Design

Design - Detail and Plan

The main theme of Grotesque Carnivore being life and death, I translated this into infectious bacterical structures that convey the idea of the infestation of death manipulated to sprout new life.

The metallic sheets, interweaving with the recycled rolled cylinders ( used for the insertion of design junk) is inspired by the membranal structure of the foot fungi.

The way that the metal envelopes the trashcan is the idea that represents an abstract metallic culture dish that holds the bacteria, which in the form of green and yellow tubes.

The colour of the tubes can directly be identified to be the mossy hue of bacteria infestations, and yet, it is also associated as being the colours of recycling bins everywhere.

Design Concept Exploration

The membrane structure of Athlete's foot creates a tight interweaving biological strands, in the microscopic level, that closely resembles the digital wireframing of the initial three dimensional scans.