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Impact of Mortality and Immortality in Design
Have you ever pondered about the length of your lifetime compared to the universe? The life expectancy of humans these days reached 73.4 years, but the universe itself seems infinite since it has lived for 13.7 billion years.
In living our finite life, we have created things that change the course of our own life, those around us, and those in the future, including the environment we touched and haven’t yet touched. It’s why the era where human lives are called the Anthropocene.
What kind of attitudes that can appear in front of such limitless, endless future and past? Which attitude seems best to be worn so we're not overwhelmed or turned into apathy because of it?
View on Trends
Every year, even at every turn of the season, products in the shopfront of brands are changing to follow trends and the so-called "demand" of the market. But what if changing the products in the collection means there are tonnes of waste products that our society can't even manage?
Trends have to be followed with certain ethics, both by the consumer and producer. How? We have our own take on this.
View on Beauty
If we try to evaluate beauty on superficial things, we value the wrong subject. Our evaluation and perception will be meaningless. Similar to when we respond to a question with the wrong understanding of the said question, we simply miss the subject and should move on to the right one. The wrong answers will be forgotten within a second. So does our creation.
Design as a process of self-discovery
Is self-discovery even necessary? To us, self-discovery has helped us to find a new design language and its aesthetics. It has also given us several lenses to see the condition of the Indonesian furniture industry and provided us an understanding of our role in it. While in the sense of self, it will help in finding the right place to fit who you are, who you can be, and what purpose can you serve with it.
Design Proximity
Are you a designer? Have you considered the design language for your works? Why do we need it?
Design language is the amalgamation of a creative approach to problem-solving. Where the richer its vocabulary, the more used and exercised, the more it will be able to proliferate solutions. By starting to craft the design language, we improve our design's proximity, which is needed to be infinitesimal to humans due to the climate doom we are facing.