[Jewelry making - Article 00830] - Re: [Orchid] Jewelry design - what & where to learn

[John Donivan]

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>     what about the "Golden Spiral"? or the mathematical patterns in
>     nature as in sunflower heads or the 5 sided nature of leonardos
>     vitruvian man sketch? PHI, or 1.168? all of you people thinking of
>     yourselves as designers ? good design is not willy nilly, heely
>     feely or all peace love and bell bottoms. 

    I think it's important qualify Goo's statement by saying that good
    design is also not pedantic. The Golden Ratio is important to
    understand, but ultimately it doesn't mean that much in design - it's
    much more important in mathematics, and there it's largely a
    curiosity - "Look how all this stuff just falls into place
    naturally." Someone who slavishly uses it in design is, well, a slave
    to it. I think the biggest problem with untrained people is that they
    only do what they do. Lot's of people carve dogs or make dolphin
    pendants, but they don't know where to start with something that's
    outside the box, and that's where an understanding of the overall
    concepts and techniques comes into play. I also think that many are
    unable to deal with parameters and constraints, which is fundamental
    also. Freedom is all well and good, but discipline is necessary too. 

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