Form Follows Function
A hyperreal still life built from digital trash. Form follows function reframes discarded textures and consumer debris as speculative vessels: fragile, fractured, strangely beautiful.
Creative Direction:
gezeisel.studio
Role:
3D Artist
Year:
2021
Design in decay: the aesthetics of what’s left behind.
What happens when function fails, or becomes irrelevant? Form follows function assembles photorealistic 3D still lifes from fragments of the everyday: torn labels, dirty cloth, broken packaging, dust. The vessels containing them recall domestic glassware, but their surfaces are warped, smeared, optically unstable. These are not tools of use, but containers of residue.
Rather than idealizing product design, the work lingers in its afterlife — where waste materials and broken forms become the main protagonists. Playing with the visual grammar of commercial object photography, the renders seduce with their detail, only to reveal the aesthetics of abjection and excess beneath the polish.
By turning digital scraps into sculptural fictions, form follows function reframes trash not as failure, but as texture, not as end point, but as speculative surface. In a world of overproduction and exhaustion, the most telling forms might be those we’ve already thrown away.
Form Follows Function
A hyperreal still life built from digital trash. Form follows function reframes discarded textures and consumer debris as speculative vessels: fragile, fractured, strangely beautiful.
Creative Direction:
gezeisel.studio
Role:
3D Artist
Year:
2021
Design in decay: the aesthetics of what’s left behind.
What happens when function fails, or becomes irrelevant? Form follows function assembles photorealistic 3D still lifes from fragments of the everyday: torn labels, dirty cloth, broken packaging, dust. The vessels containing them recall domestic glassware, but their surfaces are warped, smeared, optically unstable. These are not tools of use, but containers of residue.
Rather than idealizing product design, the work lingers in its afterlife — where waste materials and broken forms become the main protagonists. Playing with the visual grammar of commercial object photography, the renders seduce with their detail, only to reveal the aesthetics of abjection and excess beneath the polish.
By turning digital scraps into sculptural fictions, form follows function reframes trash not as failure, but as texture, not as end point, but as speculative surface. In a world of overproduction and exhaustion, the most telling forms might be those we’ve already thrown away.
Form Follows Function
A hyperreal still life built from digital trash. Form follows function reframes discarded textures and consumer debris as speculative vessels: fragile, fractured, strangely beautiful.
Creative Direction:
gezeisel.studio
Role:
3D Artist
Year:
2021
Design in decay: the aesthetics of what’s left behind.
What happens when function fails, or becomes irrelevant? Form follows function assembles photorealistic 3D still lifes from fragments of the everyday: torn labels, dirty cloth, broken packaging, dust. The vessels containing them recall domestic glassware, but their surfaces are warped, smeared, optically unstable. These are not tools of use, but containers of residue.
Rather than idealizing product design, the work lingers in its afterlife — where waste materials and broken forms become the main protagonists. Playing with the visual grammar of commercial object photography, the renders seduce with their detail, only to reveal the aesthetics of abjection and excess beneath the polish.
By turning digital scraps into sculptural fictions, form follows function reframes trash not as failure, but as texture, not as end point, but as speculative surface. In a world of overproduction and exhaustion, the most telling forms might be those we’ve already thrown away.
Form Follows Function
A hyperreal still life built from digital trash. Form follows function reframes discarded textures and consumer debris as speculative vessels: fragile, fractured, strangely beautiful.
Creative Direction:
gezeisel.studio
Role:
3D Artist
Year:
2021
Design in decay: the aesthetics of what’s left behind.
What happens when function fails, or becomes irrelevant? Form follows function assembles photorealistic 3D still lifes from fragments of the everyday: torn labels, dirty cloth, broken packaging, dust. The vessels containing them recall domestic glassware, but their surfaces are warped, smeared, optically unstable. These are not tools of use, but containers of residue.
Rather than idealizing product design, the work lingers in its afterlife — where waste materials and broken forms become the main protagonists. Playing with the visual grammar of commercial object photography, the renders seduce with their detail, only to reveal the aesthetics of abjection and excess beneath the polish.
By turning digital scraps into sculptural fictions, form follows function reframes trash not as failure, but as texture, not as end point, but as speculative surface. In a world of overproduction and exhaustion, the most telling forms might be those we’ve already thrown away.
