I'm talking about the 'Zespri', that jet-setting designer kiwifruit of the nineties. It has also been patented and copyrighted and trademarked, leaving some of us quietly wondering if our Code of Social Responsibility will be very far behind. But I digress. I want to talk about design. I studied it once.
Form follows function' and all that.
Oh, some old fashioned notion that if you designed things strictly to fulfil their function, then you would naturally arrive at the perfect 'form', or shape of the thing. Let's get a little technical here. They're lazy or impatient or something, or smarter. They've seen a quicker way across the corner and they just go for it. Or maybe it's because they really want to be the wheels out the front, having all the fun and getting the best view.