Mark Meckes
19th December 2003, 06:05 AM
From:_ mark meckes
Date:_ Fri_Jan_19,_2001_ 3:12 pm
Subject:_ Craft Design - Procedures - Productivity
Product - Design, Procedure and Productivity are
important in several ways:
There is a need to make the product unique.
Design gives your work a signature, defining your work
apart from others. It may determine whether or not you
make the sale
Also when a craft person recognizes a product that is
better designed then his/her own, it is natural that
he/she will(gratefully) improve on their own design,
based on this passed on knowledge. But it is important
to impart our own unique workmanship and creativity.
We don't all want to be making exactly the same
product.
But the fact is that many designers are poor because
they (me?) spends too much time tinkering about, and
not enough time in production. Higher-end markets must
be found if expenses are to be re-cooped
Many people would like to make the same thing over and
over again, and feel comfortable and secure with
repitition, and are able to increase productivity by
refining work processes but may have to battle low
wages or lack design creativity and lose sales.
It comes down to the fact that we are all different in
how we approach crafts design, develop processes and
generate productivity, and that we all have different
aspirations as to what we want to get in exchange for
our efforts.
Sometimes we have to be a little more flexible, like
bamboo, and takes whatever comes along. That is why I
am currently making 700 identical, but very simple and
inexpensive bamboo pendants for a customer.....
because it's bread and butter. But I will take the que
from bamboos' persistence, knowing that soon I will be
back to tinkering again with new ideas.
Mark Meckes
Date:_ Fri_Jan_19,_2001_ 3:12 pm
Subject:_ Craft Design - Procedures - Productivity
Product - Design, Procedure and Productivity are
important in several ways:
There is a need to make the product unique.
Design gives your work a signature, defining your work
apart from others. It may determine whether or not you
make the sale
Also when a craft person recognizes a product that is
better designed then his/her own, it is natural that
he/she will(gratefully) improve on their own design,
based on this passed on knowledge. But it is important
to impart our own unique workmanship and creativity.
We don't all want to be making exactly the same
product.
But the fact is that many designers are poor because
they (me?) spends too much time tinkering about, and
not enough time in production. Higher-end markets must
be found if expenses are to be re-cooped
Many people would like to make the same thing over and
over again, and feel comfortable and secure with
repitition, and are able to increase productivity by
refining work processes but may have to battle low
wages or lack design creativity and lose sales.
It comes down to the fact that we are all different in
how we approach crafts design, develop processes and
generate productivity, and that we all have different
aspirations as to what we want to get in exchange for
our efforts.
Sometimes we have to be a little more flexible, like
bamboo, and takes whatever comes along. That is why I
am currently making 700 identical, but very simple and
inexpensive bamboo pendants for a customer.....
because it's bread and butter. But I will take the que
from bamboos' persistence, knowing that soon I will be
back to tinkering again with new ideas.
Mark Meckes