Presentation: Summary

     This is a summary of the final presentation I had to do with my group. We had the title Post- Modernism. We started by introducing the presentation by talking about what was happening before Post- Modernism began. There was Pop Design and Radical Design which were a lot about striking colours, scale distortion, irony and a reaction against perfection.

    We introduced the subject itself by saying some characteristics of Post- Modernism. Post- Modernist found the designs of the Modernists to be fundamentally meaningless and boring. Designers got inspiration mostly from forms and Motifs drawn from past styles.

    Fashion during this time was inspired a lot from the theatre and Alexander McQueen was mostly popular at this time. He is a British Designer who designs to show the vulnerability of women, which gives them strength. For Spring/Summer collection of 1995 he created The Birds, a collection all inspired from Hitchcock film- Birds.

    Micheal Graves is an American architect who design abstract style private houses. He built the Portland building in 1982 which is the first major building of Post- Modernism. It is a 15-storey office block in Portland, Oregon. The building in all costs around ninety five million dollars. It is a building which reminds me a lot of cubism because of its geometrical shapes. It is also very symmetrical.

    Philippe Starck is a French interior and product designer born in Paris. He believes that everything needs to have a function and he tried to create ordinary things but in an abstract form. Miss Less is a sculptured chair made of contemporary shiny plastic molding. Its base is a cube available in various solid colors while the back can be as in the same color as in some contacting color as transparent. Such chairs would be a great addition to any contemporary interiors. I have never seen a chair this shape and the idea is very unique. The design  is very simple and is lightweight and easy to move around.

    The Memphis Group was founded in 1981 in Milan, Italy by a group of designers and architects who believed that their designs should consist of different textures, colours, patterns and shapes. Memphis was a reaction against the slick, smart, warm, black humorless design of the 1970's. Ettore Scottsass was an Austrian designer, but lived in Italy, from the late twentieth century. He was one of the founder of the Memphis Group, and also he designed iconic electronic products, as well as furniture and ornaments. He designed the Acme House in Maui. It is a two story building with high roofs built around a big garden filled with beautiful green grass. The outside of the building has five colours- green, red, white and purple. These colours fit in really well together and makes the place very colourful. Since the outside already has a lot going on with the colours, the shape is quite simple and very geometric. It is made out of cubes only, except the roof of one part of the house which is triangle. This is a very beautiful home near the beach.

These were a few of the many examples we talk about in our presentation.

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