Light- Instruction Toward Illumination

 

“So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              - Marc Newson 

 

“An author’s productive intention is often expressed by cognitive artifacts which show the character of the intended artifact and the way it should be constructed for example, a drawing, a diagram, or a model of the artifact, together with a list of parts and materials and a set of instructions (a precept) for the production process. Such

representations are especially important in the case of collectively produced complex artifacts and for the coordination of their productive actions. “

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             - Risto , “Authors and Artifacts”

 

 

Like many of his design contemporaries, industrial designer Marc Newson, has gone from critical analysis of contemporary availability and the status quo to positing and making manifest his own response to the existentmarketplace. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, mass production of design has achieved a ubiquity that has reformed the notion of unique design. As the repetition of elements and mass production emerged as a critical component of contemporary consumption, a homogeneous method of communication also developed out of necessity. In order to ensure consistency of assemblage, quality, and procedure, facets of a design were filtered and disseminated into instructions no longer constrained by language or aptitude. Illustration has once again become the unifying language of the world. Risto Hilpinen argues that such a language, in its simplicity is capable of achieving a great deal of potency in articulating even the most complex of tasks.