Att lämna spår. En undersökning om mönsters påverkan på slitage.

Abstract

Could patterns change the way we as consumers feel about a product as it ages and wears down? Why do some products increase their value as they are being worn down and others do not? Could the same affection that increases with your favourite jeans or an old, worn down, scratched and beautiful wooden furniture, be applied on other products with different ability’s and history? The goal was to explore patterns and beautiful aging in products to increase the consumers desire to keep the well used product a little bit longer. Not to prolong the products “lifetime” from brand new till it’s no longer inhabit their main function, but at that precise moment when you as a consumer decides to through it away in favour for a new, updated version. To buy “new and fresh”. Patterns with different expressions, colouring and size, were explored that increase the value of a product which in this project contained handles and varies of surfaces on casseroles, frying pans, whisks, cutlery etc. Larger surfaces where explored as well in the shape of a chair to push the exploration further, help me to compare and finally confirm my conclusions.