Friday, August 3, 2001

08.03 @ 697 From an interview I read in Surface* Magazine with Gaetano Pesce, on of my favorite designers: -Pesce predicts that we will move into a Îfeminine' epoch in which everything that has been masculine - serious, monolithic, rigid, totalitarian, monochrome, barren, minimalist, immutable - will become multidisciplinary, supple, adaptive, translucent, resinous, elastic. Design will speak through color, imagery and emotion.< Alright then, bring it on, I am ready! I think that we probably live in one of the most masculine epochs ever. I'll go out on a limb and will say this: I feel that most advances women have made in the past century, they have made by adapting themselves to a masculine world and not by making that world more feminine. I feel that we are more visually (I think that eyes=scanners=masculin and ears=receptacles= feminine) orientated than ever. The world is also noisier than ever - men and their noisy toys: roaring cars, planes and motorcycles, loud car stereos that proclaim the proximity of powerful boys, household appliances that make much more noise than they should....etc..... The other day I asked a women why bombs and hurricanes used to always have female names. She answered that bombs were made by men - period.   12:00:00 AM  comment []

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