While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface avoidance of ornament.”Įarly practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.įollowers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs - many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. Mark has received many Australian Design Awards and European iF Design awards for his innovation in lighting and consumer products.The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances - both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Other clients include the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Caroma, Optus, Electrolux and Breville.
Some of Blue Sky’s most iconic projects include the Sydney Olympic Torch design and the Qantas Next Generation Check-In. Blue Sky seeks to reinvent user experiences from first contact to point of sale and beyond, and has landed work from local and international clients, across Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, USA, UK and China, creating anything from specialised niche products to mass-market products in fields including consumer electronics, white goods, medical equipment, information technology and more. Mark co-founded Blue Sky Design Group in 1984, and has also been a consultant to Philips Design between 20. Mark Armstrong is an Australian Industrial Designer and the co-founder and director of Blue Sky Design Group, one of Australia’s leading multidisciplinary design consultancies.
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