Department of Industrial Design, National Kaohsiung Normal University

Introduction

Design is a process of intake, transformation, and release. Unformed ideas, fragments of information, critique, pressure, and disorder are absorbed together—then continuously processed, compressed, and reorganized. What ultimately emerges is the work itself. The winding, directionless lines resemble both intestines and the looping patterns of thought. A collapsing toilet serves as a metaphor for rigid inputs being broken down and restructured, while fluid and unstable curves gradually converge, guiding chaos toward form. This process, however, is inherently unstable. It is driven by moments of intensity, followed by sudden release—often unpredictable in both outcome and value. Yet it is precisely within this uncertainty that creation takes place. We are not merely designers, but agents within this cycle—both shaping and being shaped by it. And at the end of each process, there is a quiet, almost ironic sense of completion: a recognition that something has been released, and now exists in the world.