Space and Materiality ( week 1)

Space and materiality are something looks simple to us, but its way beyond to it. Space to me is something that we can use for the implementation of our project. It can be the artboard of illustrator for a graphic designer or a room for an interior designer, so different people have different space to work with and materiality is all about how we use a material to its optimum to fill up our purpose.
We often scribble our ideas on the back of our notebook, so that’s the space for us. So precisely a designer can work with any of it, starting of scribbling in your notebook to decorating the interior of a ship and lot more.Don’t want to be specific it could be anything from a point of view of a designer. So a designer should know how to deal with space and present his design in the given space. Different designer deal with different space, for a jewelry designer he have to put it around a finger with aesthetics in it and an automobile designer have to manage a space for making a private jet or something relatable to that size. So both have different size of space and both have to deal with it and they should know how to use it at its best.

While designing something, material selection is important because many things do matter when it’s about a design like space, weather conditions, aesthetics, texture, availability, value, environment and much more. So material selection should be smart enough to hold up the design so that it doesn’t come up as a disaster. A designer will not design a dress of wool for a place near the equator or automobile designer can’t design a plastic body car to run on the road, they both will end up as a horrible failure. And we also can’t use a silver wiring in our home, although silver is a better conductor of electricity than copper and aluminum wires, it’s neither financially correct nor technically sounds right. Different artists use different types of paper or canvas to enhance their artwork and it really helps them. And different artists have specialization in different medium.
The condition of material also depends because different forms can have different impact on the design and have different use. A material can be used in different forms at different places. Like copper can be used as a wire also and it also used for making utensils. So we have plenty of things to think about while choosing a material for a design. So to make your design successful, we have to choose the material wisely and smartly.

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