Visiting the Fear and Love exhibition demonstrated the broad range of the term design. From Grindr's app illustrating their efforts to provide a safe way for gays to date online in conservative countries to a robot that looked like it was out of a science fiction movie. It was also good to see the work of Kenya Hara as I recently read his book, White.
The exhibition Designer, Maker and User, showcased the types of designers there are today, where each part of the process is critical to the over design.
Looking back at the history of product/industrial design of Braun and Valentine typewriters for example, it is slightly disappointing that products nowadays aren't designed with the same level of consideration. It seems more and more products are designed to appeal to a mass market to help provide sales for that product. Either that or these products were designed in the age where Modernism was prolific or maybe I'm not looking in the right places.
Overall it was beneficial to see the history of design and what could hold for the future given the advancements in technology and our society.
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