Past Programs
Fashion - 2005
Superheroes and Design
15/10/2005
Some of the time Superman and Batman are ordinary guys who live in ordinary houses and wear ordinary clothes, but when they transform into men who save the world, their clothes and even their houses change dramatically. The recent film The Incredibles, an animated spoof on the myth of the superhero, provides a good example of how an ordinary family living in the suburbs, who also happen to have extraordinary powers, break out of their 1950s décor, put on their designer superhero suits and go in pursuit of the baddies.
This week, we're looking at fashions and domestic environments in comics and animation, to find out how these creations of imaginary worlds have fed back to the design practice of the what we like to call the real world.
