Respond to any ONE of the following prompts:
(300 words)
• Why was there a backlash against industrial design in the 1970s? In what ways are the ideas expressed by those engaged in the backlash still relevant in our own time?
• What are the characteristics and conceptual aims of "hi-tech" design? Use an object from Chapter 15 to support your answer.
• What is irony? Why do you think irony was an appealing approach to postwar design? Choose an object from the textbook and discuss its ironic qualities and why the designer may have intended them.
• How is postmodernism in design different from modernism? What cultural and historical developments in the 1960s and 1970s contributed to the shift toward postmodernism? Compare examples of modernist and postmodernist design in the textbook.