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To me (not a designer), modern connotes modernism. But contemporary just means "current" or "present day". I could be totally wrong about this, but I always t
by nerflad 8y ago
To me (not a designer), modern connotes modernism. But contemporary just means "current" or "present day". I could be totally wrong about this, but I always try to use contemporary unless I'm specifically referring to modernist art/design philosophy.
(SenHeng beat me to it)
- wwweston 8y agoContemporary is a good word to use in discussions like these, because it's halfway to acknowledging that the choices of the moment may be as much fashion / aesthetics of a sort as they may reflect new heights of engineering quality.