On Doing

For years, a typical sign of a “bad” design was that it was good for more than its main function. A razor blade with a pencil sharpener, a spoon with a can opener. This sort of hibridity was looked down, I believe, as a sign of poverty. Why have one single object if you can live in the opulence of thousands?

However, for years, a swiss army knife has been on the edge of design not merely as a form of art, but as a life improver device. And a swiss knife is, evidently, a design meant to have multiple functions.

Since the waste culture is reaching it’s end, hopefully at last we will start to see economy as intelligence and not lack of means.