We both started out as sculptors and I think one of the strange things about making sculpture
is the marketplace for it, the audience for it.
There's a huge segment of the population that gets excluded.
I think part of the motivation was to bring some sculpture into an object that people
can actually afford, you know, and have that little bit of sculpture in their pocket every
day.
The world of design has changed a lot and is changing a lot.
There's a disconnect between making objects and designing objects that I think makes objects
suffer.
There's a certain point, you know, in a world where you had to make your object and design
your object in one shot and now those two worlds have been brought.
One stops the design and one stops the producers.
What happens is that the designer then doesn't have all the information about how things can
be made, how the machines tend to make things, how the machines really can lead in the design
in a way that is really beautiful because some machines make some kinds of shapes really
well and other shapes badly.
I've always been a big fan of the cases for things like bibles or musical instruments
or weaponry that you can find in places like the Met.
These beautifully handcrafted objects that encase things like bibles or other precious
objects.
In the modern world, the iPhone is that sort of precious object and I felt like we needed
the same sort of precious, careful pace around this object that we use and need and our
soul attached to every day.
There's a tendency, I think, in objects that are being made to have a really high finish
and look great when you first receive them, but then there's not a lot of attention paid
to how the materials wear over time.
So you have a beautiful object and you bring it home and it immediately starts scratching
up and is that a patina doesn't look good or is that just an object that was beautiful
that's now stretched out?
Trying to choose materials that not only look good in the very first time you take them
home when they're all perfectly shiny and brand new, but when you inevitably get a stretch
in it that the stretch looks good so the materials we tend to choose are not just surface finishes,
they tend to be materials that have depth, essentially.
So every material comes with an idea.
Ideas that we inherently see in any object when you encounter an object made out of plastic
that are different from ideas that you encounter when you find an object that's made out of
wood.
These objects go into the world of fashion which is an object that serves in explaining
who you are to somebody else, the cell phone case you buy reflects the kind of person you
are, reflects what you want to be to other people and we all recognize that.
That's all for this video, I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next one.
