Final blog post!

Has this course, Design in Context helped you to synthesise various themes and issues relevant to the history/theory / and practice of design? Has this influenced your own approach or position as a designer? Have you found Design in Context to be a helpful class – why or why not?

Design in Context has helped me to have a combination of ideas and analyse various themes and issues relevant to the history of design and how we use them in the practice of design today.

This has influenced my own personal approach as a designer as it has taught me to think differently whenever I look at an object. It gets me to start thinking about the ways it had been designed and who the design has been influenced by from design history.

I have found Design in context to be a very helpful class as it has taught me the major points and turns in history where design was a major factor in the change of history. I used to be a commerce student then switched to design school and had very little knowledge about the history of design.

This course has taught me a lot about design and has taught me to think differently as a designer would. Now days I always synthesise various themes and issues relevant to the history, theory and practice of design.

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This week’s reading discussed the cultural, social and aesthetic shifts in Britain in the late 1950’s and 1960’s. These shifts have caused a major part in our design culture today.

Postmodernism and Remix techniques are a vibrant part of our design culture today. This 3D image of a coffee table is a perfect postmodern example of contemporary design.

Created by Martin Gallagher, it is based on cylindrical forms and utilizes ornamental eclecticism and manipulations of scale as a technique. At first look the image does not even stand to look like a coffee table until the details have been read. This is a good example of a Remix technique.