Jurgen Bey

‘Good art is like scientific research. Investigating the world in search of new answers, without the question for direct use.

好的艺术创作是像做科学研究，探究世界的目的是寻找新问题，而不是有用的答案。

An unrestrained research that makes us experience reality differently over and over again. And in design you sometimes find art.

不受束缚的研究令我们一次次体验不同的现实，在设计中你常常能找到艺术。

Nature is a logic system. Grown out of faults during copying you get an architectonic, psychological and a esthetic tour de force. If you observe them, you can understand them. Logic makes them communicate. It becomes a language that tells things. The language of things is a language we gave them in order to communicate with their users. Sometimes the things come to life. They become individuals that develop good and bad qualities, beauty and ugliness, function and idleness. Personalities evolve and stories are told.

自然是一个逻辑系统，它在错误中不断复制成长，我们才有了这建筑学的、心理学的和美学的杰作。你若细查，即会理解。逻辑使之被了解，成为沟通的语言。相似的，我们也以这种语言将人造物与使用者沟通，物因之有了生命，它们发展出个性化的特征：好坏、美丑、有用与无用，故事藉于此而被叙述表达。

As a designer I feel like an explorer travelling the world out of curiosity or being send with a mission, investigating, asking questions and making connections. To come back with stories. Stories told with design because that is my language. I don’t see any main challenge in the 21st century, just curiousity. And maybe hoping to find a product that can affect/ move me the way a string quartet of Rachmaninov does. With the lightshade shades as investigation for the skin. Tree trunk bench and garden bench as research for staying in nature. Because they reflect my way of thinking, they are a symbiosis between intuition and intellect. What I like is that they are an investigation. They are not answers but questions transformed into products. Characters asking to be used.’

作为设计师，我更像一个探索者，出于好奇心或使命感探究世界，做研究、提出问题、建立联系，然后，产生故事。我用设计讲故事，这是我的语言。21世纪最大的挑战不是别的，是好奇心。或许我希望以拉赫曼尼诺夫的弦乐四重奏的方式创造触动人的产品。作品“lightshade shades”是对皮肤概念的研究，“Tree trunk bench”和“garden bench”是对自然生活的研究，这些作品折射出我的思考方式，它们是直觉和逻辑思维相结合的结果。我感兴趣的是研究的过程。它们不是找寻答案而是将问题本身转化为产品。这是符号化的过程。

这位RCA的导师最是嘴无遮拦，有什么说什么的个性，却是我最爱的一个。