Anti Design
Anti-Design is a movement to tackle the power of design and create some particular objects rather than hold style and mass production sales. Anti-Design and style art movement had been developed in Italy from the years 1966-80. The movement highlight colors, scale distortion and more things like a giant chairs that makes it look more smaller.
Modernism followed the simple idea of that objects should be permanent and in the other side Anti-Design felt that objects should be temporary used, quick, easy and then throw away and be changed by something new and more functional. Many of their designs were thought to be functional and not necessarily wonderful. In some architecture design this was too known as the Radical Design time.
Anti Design Artists
Many Anti-Design artists notice that
design should connect with humanity's uniqueness and not the other different
way. Modernists had used design to improve lifestyles in order to make people
healthier and more productive. Anti-Design had a more modest, self-effacing of
the main role for design that should play. Modernists also wanted to make those
objects that would fit in with the modern lifestyles and be mainly useful.
Enzo Mari (1969)
The Vase by Enzo Mari in 1969. It is made out of plastic and been manufactured by Domese. It can be displayed in both sides upside down, which the form keep adaptable. It was typical manufactured for anti-design to be demonstrated and flexibility, so that
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