Apr 29, 2020
Substance Abuse: What it Means to Style
In our lecture this week Mark asked us, 'What is style?'. Naively perhaps, I expected him to follow this is with a quip about style without substance but he didn’t, and I’ve been pondering about it ever since.
Without substance, does style even exist?
In the weird way my brain works, I also somehow linked the idea of substance with my dog peeing while out on a walk and how humans and animals feel the need to mark their territory, their work and so on.
Unless you’re a famous designer, you are but one of a number of many designers whose name is not applied to any of their designs. Why is this because the same cannot be said for artists.