What? You need more??? Well I suppose I can elaborate...
Back in the day, when Henry Ford built the first car in the US, he could get away with his famous assertion: "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black." If you think Ford to could get away with this maxim today, you probably also believe that fairies deliver your daily mail. Hell, Ford offers a whole multitude of colors today and they are still sinking under the weight of foreign competition... although it deserves to be pointed out that they are faring far better than their domestic counterparts: GM and Chrysler. It must be all the colors.
Clearly great design is more complex than an array of color choices, but I hope my example elucidates my point... or at the very least provides a spot of humor.
My first exploration into the arena of "great design" was inspired by one of my favorite activities: shopping (shocker). I know that it is typically 'what's in the bag that counts' but I am almost as obsessed with shopping bags themselves as I am with the precious cargo that they carry. My ex-roommate can attest to my fascination because I used to hang my favorite shopping attachés on our living room walls in a montage that I commonly referred to as modern art. (As a novice artist, I'm not sure she ever really embraced this definition of art.)
My very favorite shopping tote was from Des Filles a la Vanille in Paris... it was embossed with silver angels and had thick silky rope handles...truly a work of art in my mind. I have a whole host of other specimens, but my favorite ones typically seam to come from my shopping trips abroad... North Americans have simply not yet embraced shopping bag art! This hypothesis was confirmed when I came across a recent posting on Toxel that covered "Clever and Creative Shopping Bag Designs". Clearly this was written just for me!
My absolute favorites are pictured below, but be sure to check out Toxel for the full array of spectacular examples...
from left to right...
YKM (Turkey), Panadol (China), Karl Lagerfeld (Paris)
Leo Burnette Agency (Lisbon)
all images courtesy of toxel.com
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