Late
in this afternoon I left my office. When I was walking on a small road toward
home. I took a look at a historical building on the opposite side. Its external decorations are quite impressive - Many different styles are used for the roof,
wall, balcony and doors. They look beautiful even though, Ville de Nice did
not spend budget to repainting the surface. It
is surprising, this building like other buildings seems is new to me every time I take a serious look at it after almost two years I have lived here. I continued to
walk on a big avenue till some building caught my attention. “Art Deco “I told
myself. It was obvious; the building was much simpler and used decorations
which consist of basic shapes lines, triangle, etc. I soon remembered an article
that I read before. It talked about the origin forming of Art Deco was after Industry
revolution. People were celebrating new lifestyle with enjoying new
technologies, and artist started to take inspirations from new materials and
new inventions. They created works with basic shape which were similar to some parts
on the machines or train. That was how the whole new movement started. Following,
I asked myself, why machines and trains were made of very simple shape, not
like Baroque style or other complicated decorations. Because it had to be
practical- the train is huge, and carries big volume of people. It is quite
difficult to maintain classic or traditional decoration designs. Oh, that’s it!
Anything related to big quantity and quick speed, it links to simplicity. Let's think about cooking, if you use big quantity and simple materials to cook for a
lot of people, the food will be efficient to everyone but not tasty. While if
you cook for only few people with rich materials, the food could be amazingly
good. This example can reflect things in our modern lives. We have seen how things can be totally changed with efficiency and simplicity. It seems a fashion
trend to call things to go with simplicity! Have you thought that too much
simple is boring, the lifestyle becomes standard and limited? There is going to
be something in between to combine classic and modern, complicity and simplicity,
and add changes, these are the keys of making tasteful and joyful creations in
our society. That is the duty of designers, I realized.
