Felt like carpet
_ _ A conceptual metaphor in design through material selection
an emotional design ambiguity.
an emotional design ambiguity.
Felt like carpet, a concept of a carpet that came up during my thesis analysis.The result of a conceptual metaphor that is applied in product design, by making material selection thus leading to an emotional design ambiguity. More specifically, it is about a felt carpet with the visual marble illusion of a deeper metaphorical meaning. The design procedure starts with this carpet concept, discusses a comprehensive analysis of a conceptual metaphor where a mapping between felt (concrete material) and marble (alluding material) becomes an association thus leading to a design ambiguity of a product that looks like something else. Given the above, a definition of product experience would be fulfilled by the interaction between the user and the carpet, including our visual senses (aesthetic experience), the meanings we attach to the marble look carpet (experience of meaning), and the feelings and emotions of surprise that are extracted (emotional experience).
Thesis analysis experimentation _ 2015
