Considering both this week’s lecture and reading, “Pop to Postmodernism” by Jonathan Woodham, respond to the following (approximately 150-300 words, as needed):
Postmodernist and ‘remix’ techniques are a vibrant part of our design culture today. Find an example of contemporary design—2D or 3D—and post it to your blog along with a description of what techniques it utilises (i.e. historical quotation, ornamental eclecticism, wit or irony, manipulations of scale, cultural symbols etc.) and how they serve to ‘add meaning’ to the work.
Post your response in your DSDN171 blog with an image of the selected design. Be sure to specifically address the image in your response and use proper APA style citation for all references.
Designers today look at the past to try and design new things for the future. Many designers specifically look at postmodernist designers for inspiration. I think that Timothy Schreiber is one of those designers who look at that time period when designing. I believe this because of his futuristic looking chair.
The official name for this chair is Timothy Schreiber’s beautifully futuristic Morphogenesis Lounge Rocking Chair. In this chair there are very little straight lines and a lot of curves.
During the time of the postmodernist era, America landed their first man on the moon. So during this time everyone was looking into the future and how the future will look. Because space travel was such a big thing there was many designers at the time who were thinking how things would be if they were to live in space. As we still haven’t been able to live in space designers are still designing on what they think it would be like to live in the future.
Schreiber’s chair also has some unnecessary ornaments. Under the chair the supports are formed to make more curved shapes. Where they could be just plain shapes. This defies the laws that Pugin set. Defying those laws was also something that designers did during postmodernist times.
These add ‘meaning’ to the designers work by making them more aesthetically pleasing and also making them more valuable. If the supports on the chair were to be plane shapes of the main chair be then there wouldn’t be any originality or identity to the designers work and it would be similar to many other designers pieces of work.
Schreiber T (2008), Futuristic Morphogenesis Lounge Rocking Chair
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