Sunday, October 25, 2009
Some design is just child's play!
These stairs are my favorite. I've said it. These stairs are my favorite.
It is rare that something so immediately catches my eye, but if you are not a victim of colorblind, I can not see how you could possibly pass up this incredible sight!
"Scala" was created by the artist Horst Gläsker and is located in Wuppertal, Germany.
The color is of course what initially makes Gläsker's work extremely successful. The rainbow of color is eye-catching to say the least and there is something incredibly poetic about it's liberal usage of color amidst the everyday architecture tans and browns.
Written upon each step is an emotion. This creates a synesthetic relationship between emotion and color.
Some translations: (Click for source)
1 - HANDKUSS = kissing her hand...
2 - TANZEN = to dance ...
3 - ZUNEIGUNG = attachment / sympathy
4 - VERLIEBEN = to fall in love
5 - SCHMACHTEN = longing for, to pine for
6 - VERFÜHRUNG = temptation
7 - ZUSAMMENKOMMEN = coming together
Synesthetic design is admittedly one of the more incredible things on earth. It is design that reaches across to so many levels of perception and understanding. Gläsker presents the viewer with contrasting emotions seemingly putting into words the obvious contrast his piece makes with its surroundings.
Scala is a monument, an exclamation point amidst the dreary and the everyday.
Scale is design that challenges and inspires only what is fresh and new and unexpected.
Stair could be just stairs and life would go on. The plain type do in fact get you from point A (level 1) to point B (level 2). But living life as such would be living the status quo. Gläsker challenges the viewer, the everyday pedestrian, to take control and live extravagantly.
Design is not about settling with what we already have. Design is living on the edge.
11:22 PM by jamie.