anti design

Anti design – Enzo Mari

Anti design was a design flow and art style movement. This originated in Italy and was around the years 1966- 1980.The movement emphasised on striking colours, scale distortion, also used irony and kitish. An example would be a giant chair that would make you look small. The function of the object was to subvert the way you would think about the object. In architecture this was also known as the Radical Design period. The movement was a reaction against what many avant-garde designers at the time saw as the perfectionist aesthetics of Modernism. The Anti-Design movement sought to gain the power of design to create objects and living spaces that were unique instead of accepting style, consumerism, sales, mass production and greed.  
                                                                                                  
Enzo Mari born in 1932  Novara, Italy and is noted as one of the best designers in future and Anti design. Mari won 4 Compasso D’Oros. His first

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"Enzo Mari". Wikipedia. N.p., 2016. Web. 2 May 2016.

"Anti-Design - The Art History Archive". Arthistoryarchive.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 2 May 2016.