Case in point, the dot by Peter H. Reynolds (Candlwick Press, 2013). In it, Vashti, is frustrated that she has no creative ability. She tells her art teacher, "I just can't draw," as she sits in front of a blank sheet of paper. Out of anger and desperation, Vashti jabs a dot on the paper. The teacher makes Vashti own it -- by signing the work.
From that one moment, Reynolds jauntily takes us through ideas about the creative process, visual expression, complexity in simplicity, variations on a design element, and exhibition.
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| Image credit: Jacket illustration by Peter H. Reynolds, copyright 2003 |
Now what does this have to do with wristwatch blogging? A lot for a single dot!
The book reminded me of Nathan George Horwitt's patent for the dial design of what we now know as the Movado Museum Watch. Horwitt, an industrial designer (1898-1990) received United States Patent and Trademark Office Design Patent No. D183 488 in 1958 for his 1947 design of emptied space -- without discernible elements except for a dot and watch hands.
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| Mid 1950s Museum Dial watch commissioned by Nathan George Horwitt and
purchased by the Brooklyn Museum (Image credit: Brooklyn Museum) |
Today, Movado continues to incorporate Horwitt's ubiquitous dot into a wealth of modern designs.
And following in a long line of Movado dot's, I'd like to see a new model called "Movado[t].
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