Essay Tutorial
The tutorial today has given me many starting points and I’m going to list them here to get focused and come up with an essay plan.
The starting idea was “How / why has ‘metallic’ become a trend?” and “Why do certain metals have a false impression of expense?” e.g. - Why are diamonds so expensive when they’re literally just rocks? What makes them different from other metals? Or has society tricked us into a false illusion of class?
POINTS TO LOOK AT
- Skeumorphics - Definition & Ideas in Design.
- Suggested Value & Quality - Implications in Design that something is expensive by using cheap materials / finishing etc.
- Examples of Skeumorphics - 1. Modip - Provocative Plastics with Sebastian Conran - Talk of Concorde and how plastic was used to mimic chrome, why? 2. Dutch Originals - Prince Charles and how gold foil finishing mimics real gold, why? 3. Paper stock that mimics other materials.
- Trend Theory - Metallic / Holographic / Glitter trends.
- Indexical Signs - Linked to Skeumorphics - Semiotic Theory and Connotation / Denotation.
- Recommended Books - Vis Com - Theory to Practice By Baldwin Roberts - Visible Signs By David Crow - Email Sarah for recommended books on trend theory.
- Expense - What makes something “look” cheap and something “look” expensive?
