Modernism Postmodernism (Exercise 7)

 Modernism/ Postmodernism Table

Rigid and Defined by rules	No rules, do whatever you want, Nihilism
Geometric and often Symmetrical	Every which way
Primarily flat colours	Mixed, Colourful, Kitsch
The Grid	Breaks the Grid
Purposeful	Just for fun
Legible	Illegible, broken
Originality	Appropriated, Copied, Parodied
Objectivity, no emotional investment	Subjective, emotional investment from designer
	Hedonistic
Single Meaning	Deconstructed – Not used as prescribed
Perfection of Forms	Distortion, Imperfection
Photographed	Illustrated, Caricatured, Collage
Typographic, ITS, Corporate ID, Cultured	Mixed
Cultured, European	Eclectic
Defined Purpose	Sensationalism, Emotion -Trigger
‘Normality’, Housewives on valium	Counter Culture, Hippies, Punks

That's pretty much the key differences, there are more but they all tend toward similarities with each other.
Modernism crossed over into post-modernism hence the 'post' to my understanding Post Modernism having so much encompassing it is just a paradigm shift, people changed their way of thinking when presented with something that wasn't seen before, or something that was considered taboo and became accepted.

Here are some visual examples:

Modernist Design :

Post-Modern Design Examples :