The National Museum of Scotland
I really enjoyed visiting the museum of Scotland there was a lot more design pieces. I visited this museum with my Dad, who takes pleasure in the most simplest things; visiting with my Dad really opened up my mind to look at new things and also seeing things differently. There was information and facts I knew that he didn’t and some that he know but I didn’t, sharing the same space as someone that thinks about things differently is very useful. That is why I think the National Museum of Scotland has been my favourite museum I have visited because I saw things differently and had a discussion about each piece that we saw.
Textiles is a big part of the world today, textiles are used in every design. Colour and patterns are what attracted us to things, using our 5 senses are are also what attracted us to things like textiles. Thing that we can interact with are more interesting to us as human beings than things that we can’t.
I enjoy textiles because there’s no right or wrong to them. Textile materials can be made to suit whatever you are designing.
I enjoyed this piece of design because of the meaning behind it, I was also intrigued by this because one pushing and the design would have been lost.
This design is a replica of what people used to make to tell people where a good fishing spot/hunting spot was. They’d build these balancing rocks as a way of silent speaking. It’s interesting to see the extraordinary way people communicated back then; now-a-days we would send a text or post it all over social media for anyone to see. It made me wonder what todays day and age silent speaking would look like.
I really liked the idea and meaning behind this design; the Prayer Wheel by Kagyu Samye ling.
I thinking the sentimental meaning behind this design is why it was one my favourites. Wether you believe in this sort of stuff or not; I think it’s nice to feel like you’ve helped someone, even it is just spinning a wheel to allow peoples prayers to be answered. The detail that is has gone into this design must have taken months which is why I can appreciate it a lot more and the vibrant colours is what help pull the design all together.
“Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual”-Edward Tufte
There was a part of the museum that I enjoyed the most is was a space full of designs that people could interact with. I think that it is very important for people to feel how a design works and be able to touch things rather than just look at them.
This design here allowed you to click on the falling photographs and read information about the design that shown. Interacting with the information rather than just reading it made it a lot more interesting for me. Being dyslexic it really helps me to be able to see how a design works rather than just hearing about it.
The second design was about how a design easily made to be dysfunctional. This design allowed you to feel what it would be like to left your self up on something that didn’t have a pulley system. Instead of just hearing how it would be a struggle and reading about it; we got to experience it which is a lot more likely in bed in your memory.
This is another one of my favourite designs. All these chairs are made of i environmentally safe materials; they are eco friendly and can all be recycled. I also like these designs because they are unique and would catch your eye when you walked into a room. Wether they are comfy or not is another story cause unfortunately it was “no touch” Design. Another thing that I enjoyed about this design is how it was displayed, with the Timorous Beasties wallpaper behind it; which is another unique and interesting design. I study them while sitting my advanced higher art and I found their work incredibly fascinating.
Overall I really enjoyed my time at the National Museum of Scotland because of the vast amount of space and designs it had to offer. I spent roughly 3 hours in the museum but I bet I could have spent a lot longer. This museum has been the best so far.
Drew Moody
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