Tuesday 18 October 2011

mbrela - Honesty and simplicity

What Honesty and Simplicty mean to me

To me honesty and simplicity are alike in many ways as they both link to the word “basic”. I feel honesty is more about whether you trust that the product is what it states as the product itself has to show honesty in the way it’s presented. For example if the product shows its use in the way it looks then this shows the design is honest as no questions have to be asked to what the product is or how it operates. Honesty is more about showing what the product has to offer and doesn’t deceive with any fancy or complicated gimmicks.

Simplicity to me is more stripping the object down to its bare essentials and keeping everything modest and plain, less is more. Designing an object to be simple can affect many aspects such as the shape, the colours used, materials, and sometimes the way it’s manufactured. I believe that a product with a simple appearance can instantly be thought as cheap but sometimes this is not the case. For example a product could look very basic yet be a very expensive.

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