Abstract
In modern conditions, designers are often engaged in experimental form formation, which is based on intuition only. Unless the essence of the found forms is revealed, they may remain a set of isolated and unreproducible "happy accidents". Based on stable theories of form, a designer can reduce the chaotic irrationality in his work and achieve the necessary result of communicating ideas with greater productivity. The object of the study is the morphology of Thomas Aquinas as one of the possible ways of form formation, with its vivid specificity manifested in a particular thing. The methodological basis of the study is generalization of the term, analysis, and synthesis. As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that in the morphology of the medieval scholastic, there is an important idea for modern design about the all-pervasive idea of the mind-perceiving "divine spark", which allows to bring the created forms to perfection, to the unity of beauty and usefulness. In the author's opinion, such a spiritualistic understanding of form can enrich design practice by adding the purity and clarity of medieval speculative perception to modern materiality.
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