Choose an example of contemporary design from a catalog, advertisement, exhibition, or something you own or would enjoy owning. Describe your example carefully. Relate it other similar products from the recent past or from the present in order to demonstrate its distinctive characteristics, whether physical or in terms of technology and interactivity. You must relate your example to recent perspectives on design, and that include one or more of the following themes: Postmodernism; Information Design; “Softness”; Interactivity; Green design. How does the object relate to the experience of contemporary life? How can it be used to gauge or understand an aspect of modern living?
Source Requiement:
The Grove Art Online is an excellent resource available at your fingertips through the Hagerty Library Website (link from ‘Databases’);
- Woodham, Jonathan, A Dictionary of Modern Design, (Oxford 2004);
- Trench, Lucy, ed., Materials & Techniques in the Decorative Arts : an Illustrated Dictionary, (Chicago, 2000);
- Honour, Hugh and Fleming, John, The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts, (London and New York, 1989) (new edition).
（ Please make use of these resources rather than picking and choosing among hits on Google Searches as these do not always provide accurate information.）
Paper Format
- MLA
- double space
- at least 800 words-1200words
- at least 3 sources
