Creative blok is a catalog of heuristic design experiments that examine the nuanced formal and material interactions between people, objects, and environments.
Each artifact is conceived as a heuristic device that prompts a participatory open ended process leading to unexpected design outcomes.
“Whoever ... proves [her] point and demonstrates the prime truth geometrically should be believed by all the world, for there we are captured.” (Albrecht Durer)
Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 7
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.” (Frank Herbert)
Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
“Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees” (Robert Irwin)
Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
“Beauty is always the result of an accident.” (Cocteau)
Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
“Since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view.” (Baudrillard)
Cuts: Overlapping, 45° angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 5
“Art is the big door, but real life is a lot of small doors that you must pass through to create something new.” (Jean Giraud)
Cuts: Overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 7
“Strip away meaning and language and the heavenly kingdom begins to reveal itself.” (Chris Arkenberg)
Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 5
“I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.” (Salam Rushdie)
Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 5
“Near and far, outside and inside, like the surfaces of a nautilus, will be reversible terms for a sense of hidden treasure.” (Christopher Middleton)
Cuts: Overlapping, 45° angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 5
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” (Dr. Seuss)
Cuts: Non-overlapping, 45° angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 4
“Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.” (J.G. Ballard)
Cuts: Overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.” (Benoît Mandelbrot)
Cuts: Overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
“Nothing is yet in its true form” (C. S. Lewis)
Cuts: Parallel, horizontal
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
“I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it” (Slavoj Žižek)
Cuts: Parallel, horizontal
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know” (Michel de Montaigne)
Cuts: Parallel, 30° angle
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
“The problem seems to be how to connect without connecting” (Alice Aycock)
Cuts: Parallel, 30° angle
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
“The randomness to which mutation testifies is implicit in the very idea of pattern, for only against the background of nonpattern can pattern emerge” (Katherine Hayles)
Cuts: Offset, 30° angle
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform” (Ada Lovelace)
Cuts: Offset, 30° angle
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6