Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Out the design box , off piste wildetecture design thinking is Taboo.

The challenges of creating something that has not ever yet been seen in a sporting code or design discipline, is huge. Because its so huge, it becomes the seething herd thing to try create. It becomes the thought process outside of the current design box perameter. That could be called, off piste not acceptable design creative concept thinking.

Very strangely enough the biggest challenge isn't perfecting the off piste design idea itself.  Once  one completes the various strange looking new looking out the box prototypes and then steps back from the canvas so to speak. Its the crinkled nosed, frown faced - WHAT HAVE YOU DARED TO DO HERE CHARLATAN!  Who,  do you actually think you are? Fiddling in the unfiddable arena of  our sporting code or design discipline box arena? What the fandango do you think you are dare doing?  You do not have permission from the box seething herd to do this thing!!  You see someone - somewhere owns surfboard , skateboard, bike , furniture and architectural design prototyping. So if one hasn't dared to consult with this mystery someone. Your not really allowed to dare fiddle in the hallowed domain of the box. Im still trying to find this elusive someone - Tony Hawk? Kelly? Tom? Gaudi (ok hes not around) - Edward Scissors Hands. It really beats me? But until i find them - Im going to "design creative off piste",  idea design fiddle . Sorry man. if you dont like that - Turn your head away now buddy - Turn your head right now. Just stop reading. L
ook away, go somewhere else immediately. - Fact is im not really ever going to make enough of a design creative artistic impact to threaten you or anyone else in or out the box.

Yes , most people react quite starkly to any kind of design box tweeking or change - Its this initial surprised , sometimes interestingly very angry  reaction, (before the seething herd gets comfortable with a design concept change.) That first caught me by surprise. I thought the concept of design experiment prototyping was everyone's thing. Nope its really not!! Design purists are never ever easily swayed from the design perameters of the box. Maybe its this design group i need to get permission from first - Before putting pen to paper and going off piste with wildetecture design idea concepts.

So - if anyone knows who one has to get permission from to spend ones own hard earned cash, time and ones own resources, pushing ones own design creative box envelope. Please give me the name and number asap. - Ta

Im posting a very rough drawing  of our wildetecture surfboard prototype design one - The wildetects are making  up a retro prototype working surf board waffle model  and then getting our wildetect surf test pilot to throw himself over some wave ledges at the Llandudno surf session in feb. And  sorry if we haven't asked your permission to change the aesthetics of a  surfboard, or a skateboard or bikes or furniture or  architectural design concepts for that matter. Were very, very sorry man. Incidentally we have wildetecture skate test pilots and wildetect bike TP"s. 



Its to my mind a very interesting conundrum, that certain design minds go on about the holy Grail of thinking outside the  box. Surprisingly when someone tries to - All be it maybe, very badly. The design box herd goes completely bazerk forming committees and lynch mobs. BTW  that's the very same design herd that has learnt the minute parameters of this box , learnt and studied the fine, definite rules and size, shape and texture of the inside of the  box. Learnt the absolute exactitude's of the box over 10 maybe 20 years,  at esteemed design box learning institutions. And even have vast DESIGN art degrees to prove their design box  capabilities and thinking design mentality. Some have also managed to put every previous creative design mind,  who has ever lived,   into individual  design boxes. Then studied and learnt all they can about these design boxes to the very last detail. It is my experience that its  this very same design box herd - That immediately cries radical, extreme, vitriolic design foul when one appears to stumble outside of the design box framework. DONT COLOUR OUTSIDE OF THE LINES THEY ALL SHOUT WITH GREAT FERVER!!  Dont make waves . You see, it seems that  you are not really supposed to think or create outside of the design box. That my friend is not for you, that's the domain of the elite design self appointed professionals and uber design experienced. Its for the trained out the box design people,  and that is most definitely not you. Capice?

You must just think design box like the seething herd, like the rest of us,  follow the trends and shut up - Or you will be design cred doomed. Destined for the wastelands of creative design Siberia. A jumping for the cameras, behind the esteemed design box thinking elite, look at me , look at me you might go. Whilst absolutely nobody really even notices or frankly is even interested or cares in the out pourings of your nut noodle creative design mind . You might even, quite tragically really,  be deleted from certain SA design elite forums - As i have had the prinilege of being. Which left me extremely emotional , tearful and needing years of therapy. Oh wait i think i was in need of that anyway. -  its the struth!!

I have to say - i have come to feel very comfortable with this on the outside dynamic - Because the aftermath of a massive design boxer crit, although incredibly enlightening, is also incredibly soul destroying and bruising. When ones motive for fiddling outside of ones personal understanding of the box is pure enjoyment. Not  mass sales of product or the usual reasons for puffing oneself up ego wise. Tinkering around in ones own head space can be very rewarding. Im still going to in my way , try think design stuff outside of the design trend box framework. Even though i am fully aware its potential design cred suicide .  You see

creativity  knows,  no bounds.
creativity nose,  know bounds.
creativity no's , nose bound.

Well i wouldn't want my nose to be creatively bound - "siesman," (Afrikaans for sis man)  I mean really.  All i can say is that this off piste design concept approach of doing the exact opposite to the design box trend herd  - Is not for everybody and i can hear the design boxers exclaim, " Thank goodness!."

So im now off to design outer box Siberia, i catch the box car tomorrow. I will be sitting on the roof just to prove a point!! Freeze possibly to death but the point is much more important than the sacrifice.