Design Exclusiveness-Paola Antonelli
Design Exclusiveness. I wonder if this exist. Do creatives sometimes want to create a world in which they feel that everyone else is an outsider. Have they been thought of as an outsider for so long they have taken over the role. Who is to say something is good or bad or right or wrong when it comes to design? I don’t really know. I don’t have answers to any of these questions. For a long time I realized that I lived in two worlds. One that is very much administrative and one where I have to make something out of nothing. I’ve tried to live by a mantra when it comes to creation. There is nothing new under the sun. There may be new ways of doing a task but the end product is not really new. You may change the color but its still not new. I could be way off though. Right? Because there are smarter people than me out there. I get a newsletter from Creativity and this was one of the articles this past week. Love your designers. They make your world work.
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When you get done watching that check her out at TED. If you liked last Saturday’s TED you will really like this.
(from TED)
Since she stepped back from practicing architecture in order to focus on writing about design, teaching and curating gallery exhibitions, Italian native Paola Antonelli has become a force to be reckoned with in the design world. Working at the Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1994, she now heads up the gallery’s Architecture and Design department and has worked on shows such as “Humble Masterpieces,” which celebrated traditionally unheralded design icons such as the paperclip; “Safe,” considering issues of protection, and “Workspheres,” a look at contemporary workplace design.
Ever mindful that the majority of visitors to MOMA are attracted by artists such as Picasso and Matisse, Antonelli works to ensure that if they do stumble across a design-related show, they’ll be both entertained and enlightened. Her latest book is Exit to Tomorrow: World’s Fair Architecture, Design, Fashion 1933-2005.
