Cultures and design

The design's place and importance through our culture...

Designers have always had an important and primordial place in our societys.

They are those that transmit in the history our succes, our defeat, our hopes, our weaknesses, our joys, etc.


If I should define and structure those visionary models that we're living with all over us, I would class them in two categorys:


1 - Global and conceptual art
Integrate designing historic building, visual advertising for national advertising campaign...

2 - Locals identitys riches window
Let take the place to street furniture, architecture, cooke and food...

3 - Traditions and locals cultures

The Region's or géographic's area Identity is always across a delicate balance between économic reason, locals colors characteristics's and traditional inheritance.

As all géographic area got it history, to understand the caractéritics that describe it, it is good to know what have engrave in one's memory customs and traditions.


4 - Resources
A/ Matérials Transformation, Design
To shelter, to put ourself up, to dress, to move, to drive... invest and consum

- Hébergement, habitat, aménagement de l'espace habitable (Architecture),
- Vêtements, mode, stylisme (industrie textile),
- Locomotion, moyens de transports, gestion de l'environnement collectif (voirie, administrations publiques, gestion de l'espace collectif, etc.)

- Housing, habitat, settlement (Architecture),
- Clothes, fashion, design (Textile industry),
- Locomotion, transports, public environment (Public roads and transmissions lines, etc.)


B/ The culinary art
To feed, to treat...
Five continents, all with their riches and treasures, diversity, cultures... to the discovery of nature's beneficial effect!!!


Africa Soil: Cameroon


Some links to discover:

Design accross cultures