Anti Design Festival

Today I went to Anti Design Festival and it's been an enriching experience.

I found out that the main purpose of this Festival is to break away from the Commercial Design. Commercial Design is based on 'money' and because of this, in the past 25 years design has lost its individuality. Therefore, the Anti Design Festival is here to bring back the creativity.

Image: http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/system/images/43756/default/anti_design_festival.jpg 

I went only to the exhibitions of Anti Design Festival and all of them were interesting in different ways. The ones I like the most are Londonnewcastle Project and Epic Fail.

  

I like Londonnewcastle Project's exhibition because it shows how real design is supposed to be: many ideas in a confused environment, this is how true individual design ideas are formed and it's not by following the perfect 'monetary' rules. Plus there were workshops in this exhibition so I managed to create many colorful pins!  

The Design Environment

Ideas

 

In this exhibition there were many interesting artworks:
 

I like Epic Fail because it shows the idea that everything can be called an artwork or a design work, even if it's not perfect. In fact, there were all sorts of art and design works at this exhibition and it was interesting to see different types of works because nowadays it is very difficult to have some distinctiveness in the design world.

A pile of random pieces of paper. Design?

Range of different Design Ideas

"We are living in an age where millions of colours became 256. Difference is enemy. Generic culture hypnotises us all into generic patterns, where control is visibly invisible. Danger is replaced by fear. New means upgrade. Art made money stupid, and money made us fools." Anti Design Festival's Journal

I tried to go to the 100% Design but unfortunately they didn't let me in! Because apparently it was 'only business' -.-"