Comments on: How Ideas Become Shoes: Creativity in Process http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/03/how-ideas-become-shoes-creativity-in-process/ Sat, 18 May 2013 18:58:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Phyllis Hart http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/03/how-ideas-become-shoes-creativity-in-process/#comment-28 Phyllis Hart Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:59:19 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=363#comment-28 "...a creative product—in this case a shoe—doesn’t emerge from one individual’s flash of inspiration, but from “a network involving many persons, processes and materials; it is both relational and transformative." Very well said! www.susaneisen.com “…a creative product—in this case a shoe—doesn’t emerge from one individual’s flash of inspiration, but from “a network involving many persons, processes and materials; it is both relational and transformative.”
Very well said!

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]]> By: Mary Briggs http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/03/how-ideas-become-shoes-creativity-in-process/#comment-22 Mary Briggs Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:36:28 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=363#comment-22 I agree that creativity still exists in the mechanized world especially in body attire. As with all the creative process though we want to make the object Look Pretty and who is wearing it Look Pretty. Sadly though at the same time we forget about the dangers of the product we are making, in the long run. Pretty shoes do not make pretty feet. On the extended version of this thought - we really do not appreciate the creative or health element as consumers when things are so mass produced. We are not near enough to the process. If we could "be there" when something is being made for our personal use we could make adjustments. I agree that creativity still exists in the mechanized world especially in body attire. As with all the creative
process though we want to make the object Look Pretty and who is wearing it Look Pretty. Sadly though at the same time we forget about the dangers of the product we are making, in the long run. Pretty shoes do not make pretty feet.
On the extended version of this thought – we really do not appreciate the creative or health element as consumers when things are so mass produced. We are not near enough to the process.
If we could “be there” when something is being made for our personal use we could make adjustments.

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