In my train of thoughts from part 1, I had another picture: defining what design is also like peeling an onion. Let’s pretend we see an onion for the very first time! Trying to find the core, or the fruit, of that onion, we keep peeling off the layers, but eventually the onion is gone. However, we know and taste what an onion is through each of those layers or through the totality of the layers, which is the onion. I think this picture can be applied to describing any kinds of essential truth since the nature of “truth” should be something that cannot be summed into sentences to begin with. The essence or truth of anything is formless, yet we all grasp it and feel the existence of it though its layers and aspects that certainly represent that thing.
Therefore, the way to grasping what design is to surround ourselves with different forms of design, and just the place to be for it is Tokyo’s famous Design Festa. (I guess I did all this philosophizing to get to this point. HAHA!)
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Design Festa is held 2 times a year, and the first one for 2010 was held over this weekend (May 15-16th). It is an international art event that offers an opportunity for any genres of artists to exhibit and showcase their productions freely however they desire. It is, indeed, a “melting pot,” or even a chaotic street bazaar, of expressions!
