Typology and Design Method
Alan Colquhoun
Perspecta, Vol. 12, (1969), pp. 71-74
Published by: The MIT Press on behalf of Perspecta. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1566960
The craftsman had an image of the object in his mind's eye when starting to make it. Whether this object was a cult image (say a sculpture) or a kitchen utensil, it was an object of cultural exchange, and it formed part of a system of communications within society. Its "message" value was embodied precisely in the image of the final form which the craftsman held in his mind's eye as he was making it and to which is artifact corresponded as nearly as possible. "
Alan Colquhoun
Perspecta, Vol. 12, (1969), pp. 71-74
Published by: The MIT Press on behalf of Perspecta. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1566960
The craftsman had an image of the object in his mind's eye when starting to make it. Whether this object was a cult image (say a sculpture) or a kitchen utensil, it was an object of cultural exchange, and it formed part of a system of communications within society. Its "message" value was embodied precisely in the image of the final form which the craftsman held in his mind's eye as he was making it and to which is artifact corresponded as nearly as possible. "
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