Definitions of Custom Design Styling Types
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Form Follows Function Styling
This type, carefully
follows the rules of aesthetics. Simultaneously, every element of the
design emphasizes the practical and recognizes the practicality of taking the
best advantage of the particular materials used when choosing shapes. This
type of design never concedes any sacrifice in function in an attempt to
accommodate any non functional embellishment of the vessel, and achieves its
beauty through this rather than in spite of it.
Traditional Styling
This styling evokes the
type of vessels which were evolved as local types by the users and builders
without benefit of formally trained designers. They can be highly refined
in artistry but it is an evolutionary refinement, with each builder refining a
type bit by bit, one boat after another.
Classic Styling
Whether in a yacht or
commercial vessel this embodies a style where careful naval architecture and
strict adherence to the rules of aesthetics for boats, along with a disdain for
"fads" and "fashion", creates a vessel which will always look beautiful,
never go out of style, and will be very hard to place as to when
she was built. The classic yacht is so perfectly proportioned that it is
difficult to tell the size of the vessel without a human figure for comparison.
Starship Styling
This styling gives a
feeling of freedom from restrictions imposed on shape by construction methods.
In other words the shapes make no apparent concessions to making things easier
for a particular construction method. While all the rules of aesthetics
are followed so that the vessel will always look beautiful, she will tend to
look futuristic through the natural human mental association of the future with
freedom from restrictions on shape through an assumed superiority of future
technology and construction methods. Generally this style will have a lot
of subtlety of shape and a use of "molded" or "sculpted" forms with the emphasis
on not restricting the quest for beauty to forms easily built of stiff sheets or
planks. While care may give an economical construction the appearance
will always be of uncompromising emphasis on flowing beautiful lines without
regard to cost.
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