Have you ever wondered why you still find those similar crude designs around even after decades?
So, will they keep producing those sub-standard design and inexpensive
aesthetics just because they have found a comfortable niche market for
that? a compromising non demanding market segment which is either
unaware of their right to aesthetics, right to own good design or they
have accepted this false imposed notion of design dictatorship that a
good design and aesthetics is only for well-off segment. The restrictive
and monopolistic approach towards design only leaves majority of people frustrated witnessing bad designs and cheap aesthetics scattered all
around which is usually propagated due to lack of serious talent and
affordable skills in design industry or sometimes carefully established
to make you feel inexpensive!
Next time you are travelling in a
public transport or while casually strolling through the busy market
street, take a serious look around, you might be overwhelmed by the
shear abundance of product designs borrowed from your childhood
memories, for example look at couple of shoes of those people standing
next to you in a subway, chances are, out of ten pairs of shoes you will
find one out of this world customized designer pair "a must have it in
your wardrobe style", you will see two highly expensive ergonomically
designed branded pair, another two pairs from the trending fashion, and
another five pairs of shoes with design and aesthetics borrowed from the
memories of your distant past, designs borrowed from different time spans of
previous couple of decades. It cant just be a coincidence that 40-60% of
designed products are still trapped in the evolutionary stage of
design, while we already have the best of benchmarks available and
established. and it is applicable to almost every type and scale of product available in the market,
shoes are just a crude example!
It's the urgent need and responsibility of a designer and a progressive society at large to unlock
and libralise the design and aesthetics in a production environment or
otherwise, and educate masses towards the same, letting this dissipated knowledge and awareness permeate through the consciousness of otherwise
design ignorant and aesthetically suppressed consumers and society, a wind of change which will help make a better ambiance and
surrounding whichever part of the world or whichever corner of the city
you are in at the moment.
you might like this post on Design Democracy as well called "Deprived of design aesthetics?"
you might like this post on Design Democracy as well called "Deprived of design aesthetics?"
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