General to Specific- The Cube Model (continued)

A Set of Principles

1. Restrictions

• Through imagination, they transcend the mundane by exploiting, not avoiding, restrictions. The cubes are the creative leaps that happen are possible only because of the existence of establishing boundaries (ex: games)

2. Imagination

3. Nature

• They mark boundary of our control
• The grid defines a territory where we believe we can assert our influence over nature; a mechanism that helpls us divvy up nature, and then becomes a tool to reorganize it down to the scale of the pixel.

4. Materials

5. Form

• All forms have shape, but not all shapes have form
• Form implies some kind of order and signifies an underlying structure. A shape without recognizable organization is "formless"
• Any group of cubes create its own context of legibility