Design Museum London

During my visit to London, I visited the Design Museum. At the time the exhibition pieces all revolved about the history of design, showing products form many era's up until the present day.

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Function vs design

Here is a photo of the new tube that will be introduced to London in 2020, the new design will be more sleek and even more curved. Due to London being so crowded they have predicted even more mayhem on the underground in 5 years time. To adapt to these changes this new design will transport people quicker, have more space for both standing and sitting, improved aircon and this design will also provide better space for buggy/bike storage.

The next image is wires coming from a table showing how many different adapters. From technology advances were now left with an overload of adapts all used for different devices. I see this as a slight design issue, perhaps a better function would be to have a hand full of different adapters for different voltage sized products.

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Here is the history of Apple technology. Starting with Apple's evolution in operating systems to advanced technology's such as portable hand held devices, tablets and watches. This is 35 years of history, you can see the difference in design size, shape, colour and weight. The design of the products have changed so much it always makes me wonder how crazy the design's for Apple will be in 10 years.

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Next to the Apple there was design history from Sony and Braun. This shows how different designs developed through the era's. These brands were all leaders of technology at one point in time. I would say Apple products are huge on todays market and have been for 10 years. Before that was Sony, this brand was huge on the market for around 30 years. And before them two Braun's products lead the way for the technology advancements at the time.

Looking at the design journey of these brands really got me thinking about how different age groups will have grown up with these products surrounding them.