Anti-Design, a movement originating in Italy in the late 1960's as an overall reaction against what many avant-garde designers at the time saw as the perfectionist aesthetics of Modernism. Where Modernism focused on material and "form follows function", Anti‐Design emphasized on striking colours and scale distortion while using irony and kitsch. Within this context of contradiction, Design & Anti-Design highlights on the differences of two thematic worlds, reminding the influence social and cultural changes had on the evolution of design.
Works by:
Achille Castiglioni
Angelo Lelii
Bruno Gambone
Constantino Corsini & Giorgio Wiskemann
Gino Sarfatti
Giuseppe Ostuni
Hans-Agne Jakobsson
Jonathan De Pas, Donato D'Urbino & Paolo Lomazzi
Luigi Caccia Dominioni
Oscar Torlasco
Silvio Coppola