20/01/2017 Contextual Studies

Look back at 100 years of Vogue covers as the magazine celebrates its centenary

The very first cover of Vogue from September 1916. The magazine’s cover price was one shilling and it promised to help with exactly the same conundrum women are still preoccupied with 100 years later; what to wear for the new season.

This cover from May 1918 paid tribute to those wounded in the First World War.

An issue from December 1929 celebrated winter sports style. In the early years of the magazine, Vogue’s cover were illustrated.

This whimsical cover from 1926 epitomises the fashions of the era- sharp bob haircut, fringing and decadent textiles.

In July 1932, Vogue’s cover was all about sleek summer swimwear. This one-piece would look as chic now as it did then.

In 1932, the March cover had a military theme.

By 1940, the cover price had risen to two shillings. Despite the second world war having broken out the previous year, this issue from April is defiantly glamorous.

This glamorous cover is from March 1945

Black and white: as good now as it was then. This cover is from June 1950.

In November 1956, Vogue transported its readers to India.

This helmet, pictured on January 1964’s edition, sums up the clean-lined, futuristic look of the time.

This cover from March 1966 marked the first appearence of a black model on Vogue’s cover.

This cover from March 1966 marked the first appearence of a black model on Vogue’s cover.

Jerry Hall starred on this iconic cover shot from May 1975 by Norman Parkinson in Jamaica.

Pure glamour for October 1986, starring Chrisy Turlington

December 1987’s cover image was taken by Patrick Demarchelier

December 1987’s cover image was taken by Patrick Demarchelier

A tribute to Diana for the October 1997 issue

A young Kate Moss represents fashion’s new spirit in March 1993.

Kate Moss graces the cover again in May 2003, this time with Ziggy Stardust flah emblazoned across her face.

Lara Stone is the star of December 2009’s dreamy cover.

Gisele gets the new year off to a colourful start in December 2011

The Duchess of Cambridge starred on the June 2016 cover, Vogue’s official centenary issue.

The most recent issue of Vogue show Victoria Beckham relaxing in a rust-hued coat.

20/01/2017 Contextual Studies

100 years of British Vogue

British Vogue launched in 1916, in the midst of the First World War. It was out of necessity that a British version of the original magazine was introduced. When shipments from America stopped due to the war, Conde Nast decided it was time to create a new, British version of the publication.On September 15, 1916, the first edition appeared, along with assurances that “each issue will be supplemented with carefully selected articles dealing with English society, fashions, furniture, interior decorating, the garden, art, literature and the stage.” All for a cover price of one shilling. Photographs of society figures, no doubt carefully chosen as a sop to the English upper classes.

At the beginning, photography was a powerful selling point for British Vogue, as it was for
the American edition. Although fashion drawings featured heavily, and remained in the magazine until the 1950s, film was bringing a new reality to entertainment. Photography would gain an early foothold and come to dominate fashion completely. It is true to say that some of the world’s most iconic images of style in the 20th century originated on the covers and in the editorial pages of Vogue magazine.

The first editor of British Vogue was Dorothy Todd who, even at the time, was considered a strange choice. An intellectual and lesbian, she had no interest at all in fashion, including American fashion. Her tenure was brief, lasting a single year. She was replaced by Elspeth Champcommunal, who had previously worked in couturier Worth’s London office. By contrast, Champcommunal was entirely focused on high fashion and style.

In 1924, British Vogue was losing at least £25,000 a year — a lot of money in those days. Having proved she lacked commercial sense, Elspeth Champcommunal was replaced by Dorothy Todd, who was reinstated as editor-in-chief. Then she immediately appointed a new editor, Alison Settle, who stayed for nine years. It was during her reign that the unique formula for British Vogue began to emerge. In essence, it was to champion dress with common sense, so as long as it was stylish. It is true to say that the middle years of the 20th century saw Vogue opening out to encompass not only new attitudes but also a wider readership.

Tilberis, who had worked as a stylist at Vogue for 20 years
before becoming editor. Tilberis left British Vogue to edit U.S. Harpers Bazaar.
Her place was taken by the present editor, Alexandra Shulman, who has held the role for 24 years — longer than any other British editor. During her tenure, the movements towards youth, freedom and informality, begun in Milller’s Vogue and carried forward by Wintour and Tilberis, have largely overwhelmed Vogue’s old standards of high-fashion dress. Now, competing with Condé Nast’s own Love magazine, and the many infant fashion magazines that are more accurately described as ‘attitude’ magazines, British Vogue has the highest sales it has ever had, with a combined print and digital circulation of 200,058 per month (ABC Jan – Jun 2015).

Reference: http://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/colins-column/100-years-of-british-vogue

10/01/2017 Contextual Studies

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS

Plan:

To express the 100 years change of British Vogue.

Firstly, I will research the information and background of Vogue.

Then, Collect the covers of the magazine, to analyze the trend, culture, and background of each time. More detail, I would proved editor-in-sheif in the 100 years, and the background, history, culture that could influence British Vogue in the 100 years.

                                                                                         Research: British Vogue magazine

The magazine is considered to be one that links fashion to high society and class, teaching its readers how to ‘assume a distinctively chic and modern appearance’.

During the 100 years Vogue has 10 editors-in-cheif, with the revolution of the years, they made it become to a powerhouse publication as it is today.

So I would collect each editors-in-chief’s information, especially on their editing style.

Not only the editor-in-cheif, but also the environment, history, and economic could impact Vogue’s growth.

 I will collect the history and experience of Vogue during the 100 years.

The conclusion I will combine the two main part to have the combinational vision to express  British Vogue in the 100 years.

13/12/16 Contextual Studies

Evaluation and Conclusion

In Contextual Studies pat one, we learning 9 different area in art.

The value of research

We learned three historical paintings that we can find meaning behind the images. They are The Vanities of Human Life (made by Harmen Steenwyck in 1645), My bed (by Tracy Emin in 1998). More specifically, The Vanities of Human Life was made by Harmen Steenwyck in 1645.

The Vanities of Human Life in 1645

As the painting shows, there are many symbolizes. For instance, the book shows human’s knowledge, the Japanese sword and the shell mean wealth, and the musical instruments express the pleasures of the senses.  The main idea of the painting is that”you should not be concerned about the wealth and possessions you accumulate in this world as you can’t take them with you when you die.”

 

My bed.1998 is one of the contemporary works. The name of the artist was Tracy Emin.

My bed.1998

There are different between contemporary art and traditional art. Both of works use different technic to show the main idea. One(The Vanities of Human Life) is using symbols to reveal the truth that nothing will belong to you after you die. The other one(My bed) tend to show more to emotion and what inside of individual that afraid the uncontrolled things. (People afraid difficult time, but when it comes to them they have to face it.)In addition, The Vanities of Human Life use dark colour in order provide a deep and sad feeling. By the contrast, My bed has dull colour, it really shows how depressed the artist feeling. Also it seems no hope in her life anymore. Those two work are really different, but the both artists used same way that using objects to express their views.

Dada and Surrealism

Dada was ab art movement formed the First World War , and the first founder was a writer,
Hugo Ball.  Dada’s aim was to destroy traditional values in art and to create a new art to replace the old. For instance, Marcel Duchamp draw mustache on the Mona Lisa.

This act in itself displays the importance of chance in Dad art. Irreverence was another key feature: in one of Dada’s most notorious exhibitions, organized by Max Ernst, axes were provided for visitors to smash the works on show.

MA Ray Rayograph, 1920

The artist usually use the objects that he found and changed into art, and they are called readymades. Man Ray is one of the Surrealist artist, and he has used photograms in darkroom.

 

 

Surrealism was founded in Paris in 1924. Its feature is to using subconscious to liberate is to using subconscious to liberate pictorial subjects and ideas, in order to combine of dream and reality into a reality. The famous artist are Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte and Joan Miro.

The Persistence of memory

The Persistence of memory is one of Salvador Dali’s work. That painting shows very specific element that makes the them outstanding. Time is the theme of the work, the melting watches, swarming ants, and sunlight all of them represent time. In addition, all of them shown the sea was a little unstable, in order to show”the systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality”.

 

 

Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon 1936

More works, Meret Oppenheim combined her cup and saucer with animal fur.

 

Hans Bellmer made a mannequin with 4 legs, and put it on the ground.

Magritte painting in front of the window what is the world. We are trapped. This painting was made by Rene Magritte in 1933, and named  la condition humaine.

 

Abstraction

There are two movements connected to Abstraction, they are Minimalism and Surrealism.

Four Painting by Piet Mondrian 1908-1914.

We can see how Mondrian is systematically breaking down his painting of a tree by excluding whatever he felt was not important to get the essence of the subject and reduce it eventually to a series of lines and colors.

 

Other famous painting that Malevich make in 1913.

It was a Malevich Portrait of Mikhail Matjuschin, 1913. He used different shapes to combined them together and the colour was variety like fade blue, blank square, black square, different tone of yellow, and so forth. All of them make the visual looks three dimensional. And it also has modern look and simplification.

Carl Andre. Equivilent VII 1968 ‘The Bricks’ Tate Gallery London. The artist play it by using stack.

Jackson Pollock The She-wolf

By the mid 1940s Pllock was painting in a completely abstract manner, and the ‘drip and splash’style for which he is best known emerged with some abruptness in 1947.

Commercialism and Pop Art

 

 

Hamilton helped organize the ‘Man, Machine, and Motion’ exhibition in 1955, and This is Tomorrow’ with its landmark image Just What is it that makes today’s home so different, so appealing?(1956)

Andy Warhol is one of the famous Pop artist. He said’If you want to know all bout Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.’

Andy Warhol Self Portrait 1960s and Andy Warhol Soup Can 1962 were two of his famous works.

These images are flat, dot-printed, schematic, candid, popular.

Roy Lichtenstein painted the cartoon jet fighter painting called Wham 1963.

James Rosenquist F-111 1965 26 metres long

He used to paint them for a living ‘hundreds of square feet of Franco- American spaghetti, and a large beer glass sixty feet long’

There are a kid wear casque, lamp,airplane, and so forth. This painting is still relevant today because it includes commercial elements.

Jeff Koons. Puppy. Bilbao.1997

This Puppy was made from Flower in 1997.

 

 

 

 

Idea as Art. Conceptual Art.

Joseph Kosuth 1965_’OneAndThreeChairs’

One and Three Chairs, 1965, is a work by Joseph Kosuth. The piece consists of a Chair, a Photograph of this chair, and an enlarged dictionary definition of the word”chair”. The different between them  are 2 dimensional, 3 dimensional, and description.

‘An Oak Tree’ by Michael Craig Marti

As we can see from the picture, there is a glass of water on a shelf, and a Q&A sheet on the wall.

Martin Creed makes you aware of you own self-consciousness in handing with abstraction. He is asking the eternal question:’What can I do?’ Foe instance, Q: To begin with, could you describe this work? A: Yes, of course. What I’ve done is change a glass of water into a full-grows oak tree without altering the accidents of the glass of water.

Land Art

Land Art was inspired by minimal Art and Concept art but  also by modern and minimal movements such as De Still, Cubism, Minimalism and the work of Constantin Brancusi and Joseph Beuys.

There was Spiral Jetty that Robert Smithson builtin the Great Salt Lake in Utah, U.S.A.

Walking A Line Peru 1972

 

when Richard Long went for a walk, there were footprint he leave behind.

Andy Goldsworthy made half a sculpture in a lake.

He has employed the use of machine tools. To create ‘Roof’, Goldsworthy worked with his assistant and five British dry-stone wallers, who were used to make sure the structure could withstand time and nature.

 

 

The Expanded Field. Performance and Installation.

Performance Art. Body art, performance,”Aktionism”, Happenings: these are all names for the many late 20th century art forms that have used the artist’s own body as the subject and object of the artwork itself.

In Cut Piece, an early piece of feminist art fist staged in 1964, Yoko Ono Knelt on the ground and laid down a pair of scissors. The audience were invited to come forward and cut off any piece of her clothing.

Carol Schneemann performing her piece Interior Scroll,1975.

Schneemann ritualistically stood naked on a table, painted her body with mud until she slowly exracted a paper scroll from her vagina while reading from it.

 

 

Postmodernism

By this term, I understand that Postmodernism is a form of art, that shows ironic self-awareness which also includes historical reference.

The Digital revolution

Whit the technology developed, the digital plays a big role in our daily life. Personally, I have several experience of using digital. For example, I have played Virtue Reality game. It was real cool experience. I wore a machine seems like telescope, I could see three dimensional objects through the machine. In addition, I also can experience the sight, touch, and hearing. As fashion promotion student, I used quite digital printing everyday. Foe example, fashion magzine is a daily staff that I met everyday which is using digital printing. Not only that I use digital printing during I making model board. I also have used photography in fashion promotion course. Camera phones, being the majority of camera, which has large impact in our study and work. we use it to upload their products to the Internet, preserving them even if the camera is destroyed or the images deleted. What’s more, we can print them out directly from our phone which really convince.

 

 

06/12/16 Contextual Study

Digital

Whit the technology developed, the digital plays a big role in our daily life. for instance, some designers like interior designers use Computer-generated imagery to illustrate their design ideas, that helps them shows the idea more directly to clients. Because it can be difficult to distinguish between CGI and photography. 3D printing also plays a vital role in our life, especially in industry. Three-dimensional printing makes it as cheap to create single items as it is to produce thousands and thus undermines economies of scale.Using  3D printing to make object has more strong visual effect because it gives virtual feeling that make viewers get impression on the work.

Personally, I have several experience of using digital. For example, I have played Virtue Reality game. It was real cool experience. I wore a machine seems like telescope, I could see three dimensional objects through the machine. In addition, I also can experience the sight, touch, and hearing. As fashion promotion student, I used quite digital printing everyday. Foe example,  fashion magzine is a daily staff that I met everyday which is using digital printing. Not only that I use digital printing during I making model board. I also have used photography in fashion promotion course. Camera phones, being the majority of camera, which has large impact in our study and work. we use it to upload their products to the Internet, preserving them even if the camera is destroyed or the images deleted. What’s more, we can print them out directly from our phone which really convince.

Computer art is one of the most useful way for me to design my work. I have used i-design to create images, that is different from traditional works of art. For me, it was easier to make an image, that help me save time.

By consider the different between digital art work and traditional art work. I felt that, digital work could be more convent, and it is also of high quality. While the traditional art work can not be replace by digital image because it brings the different feeling and visual effect to viewers and it still is essential resource for us.

15/11/16 Contextual Studies

Today we went to the museum which named University of East Anglia. At the museum, there are three main exhibitions. They are The Sainsbury Family Collection, Fiji- Art snd Life in the Pacific, Masters of Japanese Photography respectively. I got a lot of impress when I visited the museum. So firstly,  I would like to do a research about the museum.

Beginnings

After getting the go-ahead to build in 1960, the Earlham golf course on the outskirts of Norwich was chosen as the site of the permanent campus and work began in 1961.The university was originally based in the present-day University Village – with teaching space for about 1200 students – and admitted its first cohort of 87 students in 1963. UEA welcomed its first Vice-Chancellor, Frank Thistlethwaite, at this time.

Distinctive architecture

Denys Lasdun designed the university’s core buildings, including the iconic Ziggurats. His vision was for a campus university, with everything a student could need in close proximity. The first permanent buildings opened in late 1966. Continuing as architect in 1968, Bernard Feilden added ‘the Square’ to the growing site – creating a large central gathering place.

UEA Broad and the Sainsbury art collection

In 1973 work began on the picturesque lake opposite the Ziggurats, known as UEA Broad, and also on the construction of Union House (including the LCR and Union Pub). This same year Sir Robert and Lady Lisa Sainsbury donated their vast collection of world art to the university and the Norman Foster-designed Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts opened its doors to the public in 1978. The student newspaper Concrete was also founded at this time, to be re-launched in 1992 with a current circulation of around 5000 copies.

Reference: https:// www.uea.ac.uk/about/our-university/history

At the museum, the most impress space to me is their vast collection of world art. During the visiting, I got quite useful information of Fijian and Japanese lifestyle, history, and traditional culture.

There are six objects that interest me. First of all, I would like to show 5 objects from Fiji-Art and Life in the pacific. Life and art are combined in Fiji.

Double-hulled Fijian canoe (Dura)

The image shows a Fijian Canoe. The Fijian double canoe  was the largest and finest sea-going vessel ever designed and built by natives of Oceania before contact with Europeans.Fiji has abilities to build canoe, skill are redound to research length make according to the width made in U.K.
The canoe was made when Queen 19th birthday Elisabeth 2.
1970 Fijian were interesting technology, and they designed that the big sale swings all the way along and the boat goes to the left them right.

Drums, British voyages Christianity has been parallel with Fiji use in church, special Cassio like welcoming people at wedding, wood. This drums were made from very hard wood indentation in the wood is made use wooden tool but once European arrived in village the would’ve made it from metal.

Cover bowl soaking water, liquid drained, make your tongue lip numb, facing up position to welcome people join how the Vivian culture is.

 

 

Those three objects show the fact that sea is important to people in Fiji, they got quite knowledges of how to living on the sea, but also this lifestyle was combined with art by Fijian.

Worn by Adi Litia Mara when sh married Lord(Henry) Dugdale in September 1991, this dress was the first of its kind in Fiji. She decided to wear a Western-style wedding dress made from indigenous materials because she wanted to express her Fijian heritage when marrying in to a culture different to her own. Made from masi frown by her mother’s relatives on Vanua Balavu, the main parts of the gown are made from heavier masi while the details on the neckline and bustle are finely beaten seavu-like barkcloth from young trees. Dug dale’s unique vision for the dress, which was designed and constructed by renewed New Zealand fashion designer Annie Bonza fashion designer Annie Bonza, included featuring a sisi(necklace) neckline accented with masi and pearl flowers, symbolising her father’s village of Tubou, Lakeba. Adi Litia’s  dress sparked a fashion trend in Fiji and Fijians around the world. Still being made today, masi wedding dresses are now elaborate couture creation used to display Fijian identity and status.

I was really interesting to the weeding dress because it combine the fashion element and Fiji’s traditional culture element. Also it was decorated by kind of butterfly and flowers patterns very detailed. The length and the shape of the dress could shows the Fijian women’s feature, such as elegant and gentle.

The last but not the least object that impress me is MATAKAU (female figure). According to the body very little figurative work. Fijian girl were tattooed when their puberty. They also decorate female body. While in Fiji male never have tattoo. Like is a little skirt, puberty, given like and tattooed. Start having relationship. It gets longer and longer when we are old, three stages.

 

 

 

 

In Masters of Japanese Photography, I have seen several combination of photography, while the women’s figure wear Japanese Kimono was my favorite one

Nobuyoshi Araki, Untitled (Watermelon), 1991 Fuji Crystal RP Print 50*60 com

This photo was taken by Nobuyoshi Araki.

ABOUT NOBUYOSHI ARAKI
“Nobuyoshi Araki (Japanese, b. 1940) studied film and photography at Chilba University and worked in advertising before devoting himself to photography in the early 1970s. He is best known for his photographs of women contorted by a form of Japanese bondage called Kinbaku. Described as violent, pornographic and erotic these photographs draw on 17th-century Japanese woodblock prints called Shunga, also known for their erotic content.”

Reference: https://paddle8.com/work/nobuyoshi-araki/12358-watermelon

Personally, I like the colour of the photo, the colour is really Japanese style.The watermelon and the leaves are connect to each other, which promote the Japanese style. In addition the combination of the colours are match beautifully, which makes me feel peaceful and lively  and push me into it like watching a story. I like Japanese element, such as kimono, it express Japanese culture and Japanese woman’ femininity. The position of model’s figure is setting in front of dark place, which helps the figure stand out of the photo. The make up also attract me a lot, it was a traditional and formal make up, when people hold big activities or celebrate holidays women usually wear this kind of make up. All in all, this photo gives me deep impress and I like it.

 

08/11/16 Contextual Studies

‘The Expanded Field’ Performance and Installation Art

Body Art

Body art is a new form of art that founded in late 20th century. The form of body art is really different as my thought of art, that have used the artist’s own body as the subject of the artwork itself.

More specifically, I would like using one work to show the idea of body art. As below shows, this work is about feminist and  named Cut Piece.Yoko Ono knelt on the ground and laid down a pair of scissors. The work was completed by inviting audience to come forward and cut off any piece of her clothing. At  the beginning, it was politely but after more and more people cutting her clothes, it became destructive and ashamed. Personally,   this body art work seems like “I’m yours to do with what you want”, that reveal the feminist position at that time.

Cut Piece 1965

Installation Art

Installation art uses and combines different media to create an experience in a particular
environment. The material could be daily projects that people use everyday or a natural  material. It different from others art works, that it usually does not show  in museum, while it could be seen from public places.

 

Carsten Höller. test Site,2006, Tate Modern. Members of the public slid down as much as five stories inside tubular slides.

German artist Carsten Höller has taken advantage of the height of the space, he has been investigating for some time concerning the possible effects of sliding. People can try it to get the feeling of height and space. It is an experience with body and mind.

Performance Art

Performance art meant that it is unstable pice of art work. Also it could not be bought, sold or traded as a commodity. Performance artists saw the movement as a means of taking their art directly to a public place.

Carol Schneemann performing her piece Interior Scroll,1975

Schneemann stood naked on a table, painted her body with mud until she slowly exracted a paper scroll from her vagina while reading from it.

“I thought of the vagina in many ways– physically, conceptually: as a sculptural form, an architectural referent, the sources of sacred knowledge, ecstasy, birth passage, transformation. I saw the vagina as a translucent chamber of which the serpent was an outward model: enlivened by it’s passage from the visible to the invisible, a spiraled coil ringed with the shape of desire and generative mysteries, attributes of both female and male sexual power. This source of interior knowledge would be symbolized as the primary index unifying spirit and flesh in Goddess worship.” -CS

It also is a body art, that artist using her own body to illustrate her thought of the vagina. Personally, there is deep meaning behind the performance is artist’s attitude of femininity power.

06/11/16 Photography

Surrealism (Website)

After I read the three articles from website. I got more understanding of surrealism. First of all, I got the idea of what is surrealism: Surrealism is introduced as an offshoot of Dada. It allow artist to explore subconscious thought and identity and bypass restrictions placed on people by social convention. Surrealist also konwn as “waking dream” seance and automatism. More specifically, it is repersented in strange combinations, unplanned areas of colour, unrealistic object, and so on.

Viewers may think some surrealism works are weird and strange, while behind them have the meaning of the work, that release society from cultural constraints and the need to conform to social norms.

Furthermore, surrealism could be represent by different media, such as painting, photograph, or sculpture. Artists changed everyday object that its original function is denied. So through looking from the works, viewers would re-evaluate the function of the objects, even reveal the deeper meaning of social or culture.

04/11/16 Photography

Today I have read two articles from photography magazines. Both of them relate to surrelism.

The first article chose from HOT TSHOE

This work relates surrealism. The artist used his visual trafficking with the subconscious and the marginalized to express the theme of equal position between the sexs. As those photos show the uniqueness and setting their different visual layers, that makes the surrealism idea outstanding. Furthermore, the artist used collage to combine with the photos. It looks weird, but represents the power of feminist strongly. It sketches the women’s figure by using thick line, and cover the face with the drawing of mask.

Personally, It seems like express the inside power of women. The works also represent the theme, women’s subconscious, in the hope that they can find their own identities.

The second article chose from the magazine which named British Journal of Photography.

By using collage, the artist made a series of photos which relate to fashion. The artist was influenced by cites cultural diversity. There is a critical view of different experience in the West showed on each of photos. It has quite a lot of evident to show the culture in the photos. For example, the crowd that was doing demonstration. It also used attract colour contact with black, in order got strong visual effect.

Ironic also was shown in the work, as one of the photo shows, it used collage to set the cigarette end and match at the top of the men’s head. It looks like the man’s hair, while it also represent somking has already played a big role in people’s daily life.

01/11/16 Contextual Studies Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a form of art, that shows ironic self-awareness which also includes historical reference.

Alessandro Mendini, destruction of Lassú chair, 1974.

It is  an example of a post-modernism artwork. A Lassu Chair, which has a foundational design and clear form. The artist used the chair to layout the steps and he set it on fire and records the process by taking photos. As far as I conceded, this work is trying to reveal the meaning that art is no longer about the aesthetic aspact, not perfect or beautiful, and destroying could also be a kind of art.

Frank Schreiner (for Stiletto Studios) Consumer’s Rest chair, 1990

This is a chair design by Frank Schreiner, he used the shopping cart to create into a wheel chair. Frank has mentioned how he came up with the idea:

“Seven years ago, when I took my mother to a design shop in Berlin, she looked at all the wire-mesh furniture and said it reminded her of shopping carts,” recalled Frank Schreiner, a designer who heads Stiletto Studios in West Berlin. ”That’s how I came up with the idea.”
This design gives me lots of impresser. Personally,  there are more and more people shopping online instead of shopping go outside. The work shows the change of the people’e lifestyle, that I think it is really interesting. Although it is normal to see people  sit inside the shopping cart, I never think of recreating it into a chair design.

Blade Runner,1982. Directed by Ridley Scott

Blade Runner is American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos in 1982.The film describes a dystopian Los Angeles in which genetically engineered replicants, which are visually indistinguishable from adult humans, are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation.

This film provided the idea of living in a fake world or living in dreaming life. It seems has powerful and dramatic element and really different from realistic. In my opinion, the film shows the expectation of future life, or the image of the problems which come with the technological development.