Form interacts closely with content in design. The two are not often seeing independent of each other. In art there are many examples where form can stand alone as a purely aesthetically pleasing piece or content can overshadow form as seeing in the conceptual art of artists such as Tom Friedman. Modern design is made up of different approaches that work together to make the design successful. The first approach uses formal logic used in the act of form-giving. The second incorporates symbolism and content that is effected by all kinds of factors, culture being one of the biggest and most influential. Lastly is the contextual sense, where we as designers examine the bigger picture such as human object relationships. These steps to approaching design are not sequential but merely perspectives that need to be looked at in order for the design to achieve its full potential. The function of design depends strongly on the improvement of life through improvement of our everyday objects. This improvement can be visually or functionally as in ease of use and ideally a good design will incorporate both. According to Dieter Rams, former design director for Braun, good design is innovative, useful, aesthetic, understandable, honest, unobtrusive, long-lived, consistent in every detail, environmentally friendly, and last but not least, as little design as possible. I think he hit the nail on the head.
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