Discuss.
Monday, March 22, 2010
What is Design?
The Leading Creatives crew is still in Lisbon, and we spent Sunday at Museu do Design e da Moda (the Design and Fashion Museum). Rather than being filled solely with Portugese design history, the museum has a wonderful collection from the 1930s to today of clothing and interior design examples from around the world.
Separating design styles by successive decades allows you to see development over time. What we saw today raised an intersting question: is design -- be it fashion, interior, hair, graphic art, whatever -- an evolutionary process, in which designers take what exists and build upon it, or respond to it, or counter it? In other words, does design grow over time based on what has come before? Or, instead, is design primarily a revolutionary process, where the same ideas may continue in different forms for a period of time, only to be replaced by flashes of inspiration that lead to a new style that has no relation to what came before?
Discuss.
Discuss.
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Seems like recycling with some flair to me. Haha.
At the risk of sounding cliche, I think it's a bit of both. In architecture, Postmodernism was a response to Modernism. (Think "Less is a bore" in response to "Less is more.") While Postmodernism was flourishing, Deconstructivism was as well. However, Desconstructivism wasn't so much a response to Modernism as it was a flat-out rejection of its principles.
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