Open AccessA Personal Recollection Of Four Years Work In The Crown Lynn Design Studio From 1978 To 1982
Author(s) -
Juliet Hawkins
Publication year - 2018
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2703-1713
DOI - 10.24135/backstory.vi4.7
Subject(s) - optimal distinctiveness theory , studio , autonomy , work (physics) , advertising , marketing , sociology , psychology , engineering , business , political science , visual arts , social psychology , law , art , mechanical engineering
In the last two or three decades many New Zealanders have collected and treasured consumer goods manufactured and often designed in this country in the post-war period. These items are valued not necessarily for their quality but because they were local and symbolic of emergent understandings of national autonomy and distinctiveness. In a time when global corporations flood national markets with low-cost generic goods produced where there is low-cost labour, there is an international movement by ‘baby boomer’ collectors to conserve items produced in their nations when they were young.