Sunday

week3

Please bring your visual diary
Illustrated Tutorial: on design ideologies. Design processes and education. The late 1930s and the War. Ideology and historical context.
Studio: Students research their designers.

The Wesley library has about 5 copies of a book called "Design in Context " by Penny Sparke.
This is a reference book for Design history students to get information on the background and context of all the design movements. It is divided into 9 chapters and a quick look at the contents page is even illuminating. It describes in snapshots the important issues we need to look at at each point in our history timeline


1830-1914
Design Reform 
Design and taste
The Great exhibition of 1851
William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement
Aestheticism and Symbolism
Art Nouveau
Proto-modernism at the turn of the century.


1915- 1939
Politics  society and design
Avant-garde design in Russia
De Stijl
Politics and design in the 1930s
Society and Design

Industry, Technology and Design
American Industry and Design
European industry and design
Craft and design in Scandinavia
New Materials in Modern design
Technology and  design


Theory and Design
The influemnce on Cubism
Modernism: ideology and style
Elementarism and Constructivism
Le Corbusier and the Purist Aesthetic
The Bauhaus
The international style

Popular Style in the 1930s
The decorative arts in in France in the 1920s
Streamform
The American Industrial Designer
New York Worl'ds Fair
Swedish Modern

1940- 1985
Reconstruction and Design

Scandinavia and the craft ideal
Styling and the US
Great Britain and the design establishment
Italy: Style and individualism
Germany: technique and analysis


Design after Modernism
Towards Pluralism

The Crisis of functionalism Pop design
Nostalgia and bad taste
Craft and Individualism
Design for need 
Post-Modernism


Which student is researching which designer:

  1. ............................Bradbury Thompson.
  2. .....................Mucha
  3. ...........................................Rodchenko
  4. .....................................Frank Lloyd Wright
  5. ....................................Courbersier
  6. .........................................Art Deco (Victor Horta)
  7. ..........................................Max Huber (Late Modern)
  8. .........................................David Carson
  9. .....................................Mondrian
  10. ........................................Paul Rand
  11. ...........................................William Morris
  12. ....................................Phsychadelic (Moscoso)

The first group of posters are Russian Contructivist works. Their purpose was to encourage the workers of Russia to to unite in Revolution: To work for the common good and and the communist cause
Homework:
Collect at least one image by John Heartfeild and come prepared to explain it to the class. You should cover the technique he pioneered and the purpose of his work.





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