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Functional and Nonfunctional

Interview with Dave Perillo

I really like Dave's pop-cultured-themed style of design. I feel like it's a prime example of how sometimes simple is better. Like he said knowing the basic shapes you can make anything. You can definitely tell he admires Walt Disney just for the fact that I could see a lot of his designs associated with Disney. I just really like the fact that his art is so different and stands out from the modern design that we see today. You can tell that he is very vintage inspired. I love his advice of developing your own style or "thing". That's what design and art are all about, a form of expression, most importantly a form of your expression. If everyone took the safe route or copied off of every other designer the world be such a boring place where everything looks the same. 

Rethinking the way we sit down

Niel was always meant to be a designer, he just didn't know it at first I think. His "romance" started with airplanes but was later on convinced to get into art and design. Once he got into designing he came up with a new way to design computer chairs. You can really tell how intelligent and passionate he is about his work when listening to him talk. The fact that it took him nine years to design one product is incredible to me. I really like the fact that when he took on this project of designing a chair he also took into consideration how a person's body works. He didn't just start designing the chair so that it would look good to the costumer's eye. He did his research about how your body should be positioned when sitting and what is good and bad for it. It really shows how important design is and how much thought should be put into it. I also like that he observed people in every day settings to see their habits and what they do when sitting in the office in a chair. He realized that most people did not bother adjusting the chair how it should be or did not know how to. All of these things played such a big role in his design and I think it is brilliant.