“In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.” PeopleWayGivingTryingFirstsStillsImportantHardHelpingFormThreeUnderstandingBreakMissingFiguresObjectsMaterialsToolsDirectPressesBehaveDigitalQuestsImpressiveRendering Author:Jonathan Ive
“[The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world around us more vividly than we can see them without it, a system to be an aid to memory and a tool for exploration.” WorldMemoriesObjectsPerceptionToolsCamerasAidsPartnersExplorationEnablingPolaroids Author:Edwin Land
“We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.” BeliefGrowthAnimalObjectsToolsUltimateTechnologicalPsychicsEmbeddedReefs Book:True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival
“Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.” ThinkingLanguageSawsObjectsToolsFunctionBoxesPotDiverseNailsScrewsHammersGlueScrewdriversPliersTool Boxes Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.” MenArtRealShowsProblemHandsIndividualQualityStageObjectsParticularPersonalityEssentialsToolsMachinesProductionsImpressionCharmDistinctionOne ManInterventionHammersVariationPrecisionUniformityChisels Author:Herbert Read
“Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.” PeopleHas BeensObjectsToolsLandscapeAssociationDwellingIgnoble Author:Bertolt Brecht
“All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.” PeopleThinkingHumansCountryAbilityDesignObjectsToolsInstanceAwfulButtonsUnitsExtensionsFidelityInconvenientHigh Fidelity Author:Victor Papanek