Lilly Saniel-Banrey

Designer of many things. Sowing joy and wellbeing into the details of everyday life. Currently at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. See a full scope of work including architecture, graphics, objects, and documents. Or just see my current projects.

Exuberant Objects


 Proposed 2019
Siteless

Honors Research Thesis
Ohio State University
Studio by Dow Kimbrell + Sanja Kochar


 In the field of Aesthetics, the use of the “ugly” has signified that which is grotesque, askew, and distracting. As a child of such, exuberance uses the same tactics although drawing the eye in rather than away. The Exuberant Object takes on the weight of ugliness whilst expanding its aesthetic criteria and architectural deployment. Exuberant objects do not resolve into a cohesive whole and are not easily discernible. They are willfully incoherent and inconsistent in their tactics, but are not random and unconsidered. They are intentional, but not easily explained. Exuberant objects question the 1:1 relationship between pattern and form. In the exuberant object, a new formula of more + more = most operates to create a world of the excessive, the saturated and the heterogeneous using distracted attention as an ally and design agent.


The exuberant object oscillates between formal complexity and graphic dependency. Pattern engages, antagonizes, and conflates with the form in a number of different ways: pixels wrap around surfaces to mask edge conditions, stripes disguise form as they layer over curved surfaces, florals add noise through their excessive nature and unpredictable interactions with other elements of the pattern. In its whole, overabundance of pattern creates unpredictable and varying conditions of visual perception.