There's some good work going on here all around, but one thing that strikes me is that it seems that things are moving away from the style brief - which is constructivism and expressionism.. I may be wrong as I am just following developments on the blogs, and so may be missing something, but this is how it looks on the whole. It would be worth referring back to these style sources, as they should be providing some kind of direction for the way the designs are going. Even at the most elemental level, constructivism utilises red, white, black and geometric shapes; expressionism involves dynamics such as extremes of contrast and some distortions. The designs here so far are tending to miss this, and are ending up lacking that stylistic distinction that adapting to a modernist aesthetic would bring. I think this needs addressing. Take, for example, El Lissitzky's poster 'Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge' from 1919 - a simple but powerful vocabulary of shapes and colour here could be utilised to re-think the bed in constructivist terms.
There's some good work going on here all around, but one thing that strikes me is that it seems that things are moving away from the style brief - which is constructivism and expressionism.. I may be wrong as I am just following developments on the blogs, and so may be missing something, but this is how it looks on the whole. It would be worth referring back to these style sources, as they should be providing some kind of direction for the way the designs are going. Even at the most elemental level, constructivism utilises red, white, black and geometric shapes; expressionism involves dynamics such as extremes of contrast and some distortions. The designs here so far are tending to miss this, and are ending up lacking that stylistic distinction that adapting to a modernist aesthetic would bring. I think this needs addressing. Take, for example, El Lissitzky's poster 'Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge' from 1919 - a simple but powerful vocabulary of shapes and colour here could be utilised to re-think the bed in constructivist terms.
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