New York (CNN)After 100,000 years of analog living we have crossed the Rubicon to a new era. The digital age is upon us and it's changing everything.
On a broad scale, digital technologies dictate how we interact. The digital age modifies our behaviors and habits. It brings us together in endless social permutations. It eradicates borders. It empowers individuality and creativity. However, the influence of the digital revolution can also be felt in places you would not expect.
Everything we design should be smart and beautiful with optimal performance being inseparable. It should be a continuation of the originality and experimentation of digital languages. There is a major schism between the analog and digital and the cracks are showing. Today especially, design must prove its worth and address the inhuman built environment to give us elevated, more pleasurable, more qualitative, aesthetic humanized seamless conditions. Design must evolve us -- and create a beautification and betterment for society. The future shapes will be inspired by each product's subject matter and an intention to make form as sensual, as human, as evocative, and as sculptural as possible. We will see new forms that have never existed.
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