Design Museum

1500 words essay

In relation to the design canon: How has the Design Museum benefited from post-colonial thinking? Using a case study.

Can you identify an object, an activity, a process, a position within the museum that you can use to explore the question?

Think about an aspect of Graphic and Media design that you have learned about this year and see if you can locate that in a canon context?

Try reading this article and see if it triggers any ideas about examples you could look at:

http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/beyond-the-canon

http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/googling-the-design-canon

http://www.eyemagazine.com/opinion/article/absolutely-the-worst