Design and Architecture
From acid to Apple: a survey of California design
From the drug-fueled 1960s style of the hippies to the tech-utopian visions of Silicon Valley's founders, California's design sensibilities have had a global reach. The exhibition California: Designing Freedom at the Design Museum in London looks at how the Golden State came to have such a powerful influence on contemporary design.
By Frances Anderton • • 4m ListenCalifornia: Designing Freedom is a show at the Design Museum in London, a museum devoted to displaying product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design.
"It also in a way influenced the computer culture that was still emergent in the late 1960s. Douglas Engelbart, who was the computer engineer who came up with so many of the pivotal \designs that we now associate with computers -- such as the mouse, the idea of hyperlinks, the idea that a computer is a tool for connecting people and not just a giant calculator -- Engelbart was a big advocate of using LSD. As was Steve Jobs."
California: Designing Freedom co-curator Justin McGuirk (the other curator was Brendan McGetrick) in front of a wall of emoji at at the Design Museum in London. (Frances Anderton)
