Monday 28 February 2011

Design Is Everywhere

A manifesto project.


First was to write a manifesto, which took me near enough a whole day because I find it quite hard to write for things like this. But I managed something.



Design is everywhere. Whether it’s commercial or personal. Almost as if it’s stalking us; watching our every move. It’ll stay hidden in the patterns of our sofas while we watch adverts on the television, waiting for that moment to strike as we go to put the ergonomically designed kettle on for the tea we’ve just seen advertised on TV. It’ll always get us in some way. For all you know it’s already made you a victim. It’s on our televisions, our computers, clothes, houses, streets, toys, games, even in our food. It’s a part of society that we can’t get rid of, like those really messy stains that won’t come out of our designer clothes no matter how many times we wash them. Ever feel like you’re being followed? You are. It’s design. But despite how much it surrounds us and follows us, we very rarely actually notice. The only time we do notice it is when it’s right in our faces, or when we design something ourselves, or when it’s stuck on the wall as a pretty piece of art. Perhaps then we ought to notice it a little more, then it won’t have to hide away as much or try and follow us to be noticed.

And then to illustrate it.

It was originally going to be an animation (I even got Rachael to pose for some pictures and everything) but I was just to messy to fix.

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