The trio of designers comprising LUST, a design studio in The Hague, Netherlands, likens their activity to the moment when you realize that the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle is missing. To them, this sense of incompleteness and indeterminacy is "a thousand times more interesting than the moment when the puzzle is finished because when that happens, there is nothing more."
Its design for the Digital Depot, a permanent installation space at Rotterdam's Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, includes two main areas where visitors can learn more about the artworks: an interactive DataWall with giant, transparent touch screens; and DataCloud, a digital environment navigable with a joystick containing the museum's entire 117,000-piece collection. For a Web site promoting the Dutch high-speed railway system, LUST devised an interface utilizing a grid of points that expands and contracts to convey concepts of time and distance. This sense of invention extends to typeface designs such as Blowout, which is based on a series of spatial experiments with letterforms using the negative space of cutout squares.
The design philosophy of LUST revolves around process-based design, coincidence, the degradation of form and content, form-follows-process, and contextuality versus textuality and information plays an important role in LUST's work.
Check out the Lust website at www.lust.nl