Design Museum

When I was in London, I went to a graphic design museum and took these photographs about the Kodak camera that was designed by Kenneth Grange in 1956. It shows the process of how they designed it and the way it was meant to look like. I found it fascinating to see the process from designing the exterior on paper then making moulds and adding the colour and design on. The museum showed many graphic designers’ work and how it has adapted over the years while the technology has adapted too. From the comfort of a chair to the posters that are put onto bus stops, the museum showed broad examples of designers’ work.

I went to the Tate Modern museum as well while I was there, however I could not take any images in there. There was a photography exhibition on in there called ‘Photography: New Documentary Forms’, where photographers such as Guy Tillim and Akram Zaatari exhibited their work. I found the images quite dark and empty. They were of real people and places, but looked vey surreal. All the photographers who displayed their work had concentrated their subject on the conflicts in the war of Iraq and Afghanistan so the images were bound to be quite compelling.  

There was a huge wall mount of Boris Mikhailov’s work which I found really odd and uneasy. They looked quite out of place compared to the work of the other photographers mentioned.