This article emphasizes and focuses on how vital a role economy plays in design, despite its frequently widespread lack of acknowledgement. The article makes the point that economy is a major influence on design that often goes unrecognized. Sometimes people may refer to a product as being 'better' when they really mean it is 'cheaper'. Particularly in the field of construction, an enormous influence is exercised on shape by the cheapness of technique.
The article then goes on to discuss the numerous techniques involved in altering materials. Two of these main techniques struck me as being highly relevant for our project, namely wasting techniques and construction. The first involves carving away at a material until the shape you desire remains. I realized that this was the method used for our band saw boxes, beginning with a solid block of wood and cutting that down into a box. Construction, which is the second technique, is making a whole out of parts by connecting them, which we also utilized in our project using wood-glue as the connecting element between the walls of the box.
A long discussion on the meaning of human happiness follows, focusing on the contribution design makes in our everyday lives and well-being. According to the article, “the aim of design is to promote human happiness”, but design can only promote conditions in which happiness becomes predictable. These conditions are of freedom from primary ills such as hunger or tiredness. However, happiness is not a term that can be absolutely defined as a standard among all people since it means something different to everyone. But despite the fact that happiness is a vague and indefinable term, design nonetheless contributes to it by beautifying the environment.
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