Artifact

This is my artifact to represent design for me. What is so critical about design in my opinion is the integration of the many different parts. A well designed object or space can have no extraneous parts; each piece plays some role in the function of several others on multiple levels. This is my concept with my artifact. Each piece is bent to create tension which in turn, supports the stresses of other parts. If one piece were to be removed, the whole thing would come apart. Good design is like a puzzle, one in which we shape the pieces ourselves, but they still have to fit together just right nonetheless.