Unlike “modern” design, contemporary design isn’t defined or restricted by a specific period of time. Rather, it’s constantly evolving to reflect changing trends and styles as they happen.

What distinguishes contemporary art is perhaps less the presence of playfulness and more its conscious embrace of contradiction—its willingness to oscillate between sincerity and irony, gravitas ...

What is the difference between modern design and contemporary design? At face value, they seem to refer to the same thing — linguistically, they are synonyms of one another.

Contemporary design originated after modern design, around the 1970s. But while the concept may have emerged then, a time period cannot be applied to contemporary style in the same way as modern ...