KINETIC DESIGN
A 1 week kinetic design- course with Ben Hobson at Advanced Product Design,
Umeå Institute of Design 2010.
Fascination of movements
A motion capture our attention for many reasons. Listed below are some examples:
# “Moment of surprise”
# Impressed by the performance
# Beauty of movement
# Human behavior
# Curiosity, we want to know how?
Kinetics & aestheticts
There are many areas related to design, where the actual motion is in focus as an aesthetic element. Listed below are some examples:
# Art
# Fashion
# Dance
# Photography
# Film
# Gymnastics/Sports...
How can we as designers increase vocabulary and understanding about motions and make this a part of the whole form development?
DESCRIPTION
A balanced contrary rotation in one plane, creates a unfolding stretching movement of a closed massive shape.
Possible application:
Music player
Roof fan/light
Kinetic sketch #2
DESCRIPTION
“Throwing” out twisting movement in 2 planes, creates an expansion of a closed flat shape.
Possible application:
Wall mounted wardrobe
Roof light
Kinetic sketch #3
DESCRIPTION
Expanding movement along an accelerating curve, creates a “reaching out to maximum”-gesture of a closed massive shape.
Refined sketch #3