Creative Blok is a catalog of design experiments that explore nuanced formal and material relationships to explore new 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.
Sage Cross
“Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults.” (Gerhard Richter)
“Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults.” (Gerhard Richter)
Shape: Cross
Placement: Center
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 36
Indigo Cross
“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” (Kurt Vonnegut)
“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” (Kurt Vonnegut)
Shape: Cross
Placement: Center
Division: 45° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 28
Shape: Cross
Placement: Center
Division: 45° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 28
Mint Cross
“Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.” (Buckminster Fuller)
“Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.” (Buckminster Fuller)
Shape: Cross
Placement: Diagonal
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 27
Vervain Cross
“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” (Alfred North Whitehead)
“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” (Alfred North Whitehead)
Shape: Cross
Placement: Diagonal
Division: 45° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32
Shape: Cross
Placement: Rotated
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32
Shape: Cross
Placement: Rotated
Division: Rotated Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 31