The Doors

Which will you choose?

You see them everywhere, everyday. But have you ever thought about the design of a door? Take the three examples of doors in the pictures above, the one on the left is from Notting Hill, the one in the center in from the Cadbury Factory in Bourneville, and the one on the right is from the streets of Kensington. The amazing thing is that they are all different, in almost every way. They are all different colors, one has windows, etcetera. Many questions also come to mind, for instance, why did they decide to paint the double doors at the Cadbury Factory with a barcode pattern? Well as you can see around the door, the rest of the building is the signature Cadbury purple color, adding the barcode doors makes the entire building look as though it is a giant bar of Cadbury chocolate, very fitting for a chocolate factory. All of these choices, color, shape, and so on, are made consciously and purposefully. Design is not accidental.