Ceramics Form Vs Function
Functional pottery is made for people to use and many potters feel that the pot isn t complete until it is physically used for its job.
Ceramics form vs function. Form can be something that has no practical purpose only decorative. Ceramic composition and properties atomic and molecular nature of ceramic materials and their resulting characteristics and performance in industrial applications. Fired parts have unique properties that can be leveraged for applications where fired part accuracy is not critical. Production potters are most active in making large quantities of ceramic wares such as plates platters dishes bowls and so on.
Usually they are metal oxides that is compounds of metallic elements and oxygen but many ceramics. Studio pottery studio ceramics can be quite diverse. Mudtalkmonday mudtalk monday pottery ceramics discussion conversation clay art craft form function formvsfunction. The discussion that is as old as clay itself.
Production potters can sit down with a hundred pounds of clay and throw the same form all day. These products are primarily used in sectors such as automotive marine transportation aerospace and electricity distribution. They withstand chemical erosion that occurs in other materials subjected to acidic or caustic environments. One should consider how it is to be used and.
In ceramics what is meant by form vs function. What do you say. Some elements such as carbon or silicon may be considered ceramics ceramic materials are brittle hard strong in compression and weak in shearing and tension. If it is to do its job totally it should be efficient easy to use comfortable in the hands and give pleasure to the user at the same time.
Industrial ceramics are commonly understood to be all industrially used materials that are inorganic nonmetallic solids. A ceramic material is an inorganic non metallic often crystalline oxide nitride or carbide material. Ceramic resin is a silica filled photopolymer. In creating and refining my forms i start with sketches i am always sketching form ideas different versions of lines and shapes intersecting.
What is your process for designing and making tableware pieces including your spice servers.