Postmodern Furniture
Structuralism in design, postmodernist furniture. The solution produced by a student on an Arts Foundation course at the end of my project. The project is described in my book 'The Symbolic Significance of Colour Line & Form'.
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Dear xxx
I notice an interest in your posts about Postmodernism and thought I'd write.
As you probably know Postmodernism is the product of the Structural Linguistics of Ferdinand Du Saussure. His realisation that language is a culturally significant system of signs and his analysis of written and spoken language presupposes a visual language that is similar.
This hasn't been grasped fully. Using 'signs' from different languages is a bit like using a Chinese character in an English sentence, it may look great but it's out of place. In the nicest way, it's illiterate.
Since I graduated from my MA in 1986 I have lectured and ran workshops on how to synthesise written text into a meaning-full visual language to inform designed outcomes according to Postmodern principles. When done properly a truth emerges about the subject (although the post-structuralists would argue this) and that's where it's power is and why it revolutionised the Social Sciences in the 20th Century. We are not nearly finished with it yet, not even started.
So I wrote a book on it and as an endorsement of what I do I'm privileged to be granted the use of a photo of an object by Ettore Sottsass provided to me by Memphis Milano who I produced designs for in the 80's. The book, 'The Symbolic Significance of Colour Line & Form', I'm self publishing and I'm about 4 months ahead of the publishing process. Meanwhile it is available on Amazon or directly here: http://bit.ly/tSSoCLaF. Please take a moment and look around my website while your there, it's contents are truly Postmodern, well most of them.
I thank you for your time . . .
Yours faithfully,
Gary Morga.
