Ratio.

A studio journal about making things and getting them wrong first.

Swiss Design

material / language

Reading a surface

Matte, satin, gloss — and the discovery that nobody in the room used the words the same way.

We asked six people to sort eleven samples from least to most reflective. No two orderings matched, and two were exact reverses of each other.

The vocabulary problem

Half the room was sorting by how much light bounced. The other half was sorting by how much the surface hid a fingerprint. Both called it gloss.

You cannot specify a finish in a language the workshop and the client do not share.

Fourteen renderings of one blog

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