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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Form follows function & Function follows form

Function follows form

This is basic participle of any object in the world. This principle was born in 1930s in United States of America. This became a catch phrase for architecture’s, because this technically used in architect industrial first. Later on 1940’s this principle became very famous in Europe and other countries as well. The basic law for any design is “Form follows function.” If an object has to achieve a certain function, its design must support that function to the completest extent possible. This goes for industrial design and even more for other designs.






Because some designers don’t appreciate the function of a Web site, they make wrong decisions about its form. Most of the time “creative” people whose Web work was ordinary at best and who showed a unashamed disregard for the Web as a standard. They were Designers with mark of top A, They knew it all.Technically you can't have the function until you have finalized the form; you can only have the idea or fancy of the function. For example designing a LED Monitor, that would be the world's most HD visionary monitor. Well, you would have to visualize how to achieve it and then build the form before you could experience the function, which leads me to the statement...
form follows function & function follows form.
Depending on the type of product (cell phone, TV etc.) the box size and proportion can be adjusted to fit the stuff that has to go inside. The functionalist idea of function was instrumental in creating an impression, more widespread among architects and designers than among the public, that functionalism represented and defended the user's interests in the course of the design process.







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