Eclecticism In Design Movements

Many people in the 1960s to the 1970s were disappointed and dissatisfied by Design as it was characterised by methods such as eclecticism which drew on a number of different movements. People were shocked and baffled as they did not feel properly connected to the Design. Many people were unhappy about the abuse of technology and other resources, the influence of US mass cultural values and materialism.In order to understand the driving force behind these design movements one needs to understand that the economy wasn't stable and many people had decided to rebel against mainstream design and express themselves in innovative ways by creating design groups and movements. Some of these movements that tried to change the ideologies were Anti Design, Memphis and Hi- Tech design.

In the 1960s the Vietnam war began, Martin Luther King won a Nobel peace prize, the cultural revolution started in China and the first moon landing happened. There were a lot of events in this period that led to design legacies like the movement of

Columbo focused most of his design around being conscious about space. His main aim for most of his work was to transform small rooms into compressed, multifunctional living spaces. He didn't just use space, he created space.

Joe Columbo created a legacy in design, he inspired many designers. Paolo Lomazzi was one of these designers and created a leather chair and named it after Colombo. Paolo called it the “joe sofa” It was made of polyurethane and covered with leather. This chair looks like a baseball catchers mitt. It implies that forms don’t have to be invented, they can just be