Design AS A WEAPON

Maybe you all saw the Cold War exhibition at the V&A, but how they used design as a means of propaganda against each other could translate into our project really well...

"Charles and Ray Eames... famous film installation for the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959 was part of a major propaganda exercise designed to inject the elixir of consumerism into the heart of the Soviet empire...

Edited together from thousands of still and moving images (2,200 in 12 minutes, many of the Eames’ own making), the films presented America as a humane, productive and socially inclusive place, emphasising local and personal relations – and, as such, the opposite of a bombastic display of American supremacy."

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/design-as-weapon-of-the-cold-war/