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L'Officiel Interview: Challenging Balance
PRESS Joel Escalona PRESS Joel Escalona

L'Officiel Interview: Challenging Balance

Questioning why something should be a certain way or meet expectations - which have been formed through stereotypes - is always challenging. Observation is fundamental for any designer. Designing an object with a function is also essential. Shouldn't all objects meet an aesthetic purpose and artistic value? This should be a basic principle.

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Sketch therefore prototype
INSIGHTS, PROCESS Joel Escalona INSIGHTS, PROCESS Joel Escalona

Sketch therefore prototype

Sketches are quick, timely, inexpensive, disposable and plentiful, have a clear vocabulary, have a constrained gesture and an appropriate degree of refinement, are ambiguous and more important “suggest & explore rather than confirm” — sketches don’t “tell” they “suggest”*

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