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Seeing Design as Intellectual Rather Than Just Practical
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/arts/12iht-design12.html
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1 month, 4 days, 18 hours agoConstantin Boym and Laurene Leon Boym, designers in London, have taken everyday, mundane objects and cast them in a polymer that looks like bronze, focusing attention on the forms of ordinary objects and elevating them to a heroic, artistic status, forcing us to reevaluate the design that we encounter everyday in jugs, bottles, plates, and lamps, to name a few. "'Constantin and Laurene use design as a forum for exploring contemporary culture,' said Zoë Ryan, design curator at the Art Institute of Chicago. 'Their singular approach illustrates the notion that design is not only about industry or formal and functional considerations, but also about ideas.'"
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