Tuesday, 4 August 2009

Super Contemporary


As the subject of Design Museum ‘Super Contemporary’, seems a representative that means something very modern, fashionable, stylish, and I supposed that would be the purpose we need to watch. However, the main presentation of the subject is shown much more than what I expected, and it not only presents various contemporary designs including industry, construction, interior, but also points the history of design in London. Therefore, I definitely enjoyed the process of viewing all kinds of designs and understanding the abstracts or introductions of history of design on the same time.

Generally, I was really impressive about majority of works, which some are contemporary works, unique, individual, inspirable, such as the concepts of future cars and constructions, and the others are classic and historical innovations, such like the costume designed by Mary Queen who was one of significant fashion designer in 1960. Especially, I majored fashion design in university, so I was easily attracted by costumes and fashion designers. Therefore, I cannot help but stop my steps in front of the introductions of famous fashion designers as John Galliano, Paul Smith, and Hussein Chalayan. However, watching or reading their information did not seem like my original purpose of investigating super contemporary designs, so I spent majority of last 1 hour on experiencing some particular works rather than reading these introductions words by words.

In conclusion, I think the subject of Design Museum is definitely educational. Although it emphasizes the concept of contemporary design, it still points the historical effects and makes viewers like me compare the differences of development between now and before. Moreover, I also recognized that every super contemporary design finally will become history and there will be a lot of unexpected new super contemporary designs which will be happened and discovered in the future.