What Owen Jones means by “Construction should be decorated. Decoration should never be purposely constructed.” Is that If you have an object you should decorate it in order to make the object look more aesthetic but not to the point where the it comprehends the use of the object due to the main purpose being how it looks rather than it working as it should do. This is supported in Raizam’s “Design, Society, Standards” where Owen Jones says that objects should only be used to “convey the intended image to the mind, without destroying the unity of the object they are employed to decorate” This was said as more and more designs were starting to be made that had mostly the aesthetics in mind when making it but in the end result was not doing the job it was meant for properly.
I agree with Jones on his quote and in my opinion I like constructions to be aesthetic but not at the expense of the usability. I like when constructions have subtle details to it to make it look aesthetic but it is still obvious of what the construction is. For example the iphone 4 how you know it’s a phone but they have changed the materials from most phones and used glass and a stainless steel band around the outside instead of plastic like most phones. They made this construction really nice to look at and at the same time it serves its purpose as a phone.
