The work of others

• Design movement: a style of design particularly popular within a group of people or within a period of time
• Major design movements: art nouveau, de stijl, bauhaus, art deco, memphis
• Arts and crafts: rebellion against cheap manufacturing
• Art nouveau: inspired by nature
• De Stijl: geometric shapes, primary colours, black lines
• Modernism: getting rid of decoration 


  rationality embracing technology
• Bauhaus: geometric shapes with almost no colour
• Art deco: technology, but embraces history (elitist movement)
• Post modernism: humour, surprise
• Memphis : embracing ugliness
• Philippe Starck - intends to provoke a reaction
• Ergonomics: the study of relationships between people, their environment and products, and how they use them and interact with them