> On May 22, 2015, at 4:23 AM, Stephen B Allard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Curious to know what this list's opinion is with regard to the identity and characteristics of the current period we are today in Design's history. I am preparing a series of lectures that will attempt to explain where design is today and what are its characteristics now in 2015. I am wondering if this list and its members could provide some insights, resources and movements beyond Memphis, Post-Modernism, Deconstructivism and Neo-Futurism. Are there any codified movements beyond these?
Stephen,
Arthur Danto wrote about "the end of art" in the mid '80s. By that, he didn't mean that there would be no art, just that art movements as we had come to assume were no longer. As usual, design lagged behind the art world by about fifteen years. Certainly, in the late '80s and early '90s, the graphic design world was acutely aware of movements and formal tribes. Now it all seems to be a big buffet.
Maybe we just need perspective. Much of what appears to be chaos is a matter of scale: weather and animal populations, for instance, make sense in a very short term and in a very long term but are vague at best in a medium view. Perhaps something will emerge in retrospect but identification of a zeitgeist always involves ignoring a multitude of counter examples and I suspect that a design zeitgeist for the present would require even more willful ignorance.
Gunnar
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