The unusual image above shows an interpretation of a dresser whose story is demonstrated through the implication of movement. The off-shooting drawer chunks seem to naturally fit together with flush edges, and the natural human process of grouping (by this, I mean connecting the dots, or drawers) give us an understanding of what once may have been. These ejections diverge outward similar to a kind of explosion, from the base, and the convergence of the solid, bottom portion toward its center add to the over-arching visual of some kind of bedroom-volcano accouterment.
The quirk of this design is reminiscent of an early Disney design. Maybe a fuming anthropomorphicized furnishing who's quite full of being used as storage, literally. This piece finds humor in its strange application of the principle of implied motion.
Here is another example of a seemingly moving object, produced by graduate student Vicki Fu of San Francisco State University. The motion in this lamp is one of growth and spiraling. She accomplished this through the use of sequential light nodes of even space and shape. The blue and white "petals" create lines by proximity, as an example of the Gestalt concepts of attraction and grouping. Not only the spinning, but the climbing action embodied in the tiers demonstrate motion. This vertical ascent can be seen to represent the growth that living beings share. The structural elements wind the way vines or stems might. Vicki made use of this implied motion, along with the contours of each level, for bio-mimickry, to enhance the organic look and feel of this flowery design.
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