Monday, November 14, 2011
Your Final Blog Post:
Your final post will be images of your final information designs. If you participated in the creation of the design, post it to your blog. If you helped with more than one image, post them to your blog.
Your Final Exam Blog Post (due 12/1/11):
For each of the following design movements, post three designs from any designers considered influential to the style:
Arts and Crafts
Art Nouveau
Sachplakat
Art Deco
De Stijl
Constructivism
Bauhaus
International Style
Psychedelic Poster Art
Postmodernism
Gig Poster
Include the artist, the date, and the title. The three designs for each movement do not need to come from the same artist. You may not re-post images from your earlier postings.
Arts and Crafts
Art Nouveau
Sachplakat
Art Deco
De Stijl
Constructivism
Bauhaus
International Style
Psychedelic Poster Art
Postmodernism
Gig Poster
Include the artist, the date, and the title. The three designs for each movement do not need to come from the same artist. You may not re-post images from your earlier postings.
Your Final Two "Textbook-Based" Blog Posts (due 12/1/11):
Art Deco - read pp. 170 - 181, and read pp. 256 - 269
Choose three artists/art directors/graphic designers discussed in your text.
For each artist find 3 images of their work to post to your blogs. This is a total of 9 images, three per artist. Include the artist, the date and the title. Explain how the artist's work exemplifies American Art Deco OR discuss the artist's style in detail. minimum 200 words per artist
International Style - read pp. 298 - 329
Choose three artists/art directors/graphic designers discussed in your text.
For each artist find 3 images of their work to post to your blogs. This is a total of 9 images, three per artist. Include the artist, the date and the title. Explain how the artist's work exemplifies the International Style OR discuss the artist's style in detail. minimum 200 words per artist
Choose three artists/art directors/graphic designers discussed in your text.
For each artist find 3 images of their work to post to your blogs. This is a total of 9 images, three per artist. Include the artist, the date and the title. Explain how the artist's work exemplifies American Art Deco OR discuss the artist's style in detail. minimum 200 words per artist
International Style - read pp. 298 - 329
Choose three artists/art directors/graphic designers discussed in your text.
For each artist find 3 images of their work to post to your blogs. This is a total of 9 images, three per artist. Include the artist, the date and the title. Explain how the artist's work exemplifies the International Style OR discuss the artist's style in detail. minimum 200 words per artist
Monday, November 7, 2011
BLOG POSTS to now:
- The EAMES and their influence on your information design projects
- Research for Final Project
- Summary of progress for Final Project
- list of group, subject and title for Final Project
- MIDTERM PROJECT
- Helvetica Designer
- Beautiful Loser
- Yellow Submarine
- image relationships - Functional Object
- image relationships - Camouflage
- Mr. BING documentary notes, Nouveau - Gestalt
- Art Nouveau Designers x 3
- Art Nouveau, A production Designer's perspective (film vs. documentary)
- 1960's: Psychedelic Posters and Push Pin Studio
- notes on Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight possible influences on your design
- Research for Final Project
- Summary of progress for Final Project
- list of group, subject and title for Final Project
- MIDTERM PROJECT
- Helvetica Designer
- Beautiful Loser
- Yellow Submarine
- image relationships - Functional Object
- image relationships - Camouflage
- Mr. BING documentary notes, Nouveau - Gestalt
- Art Nouveau Designers x 3
- Art Nouveau, A production Designer's perspective (film vs. documentary)
- 1960's: Psychedelic Posters and Push Pin Studio
- notes on Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight possible influences on your design
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Our formal class meeting has been cancelled for today, 11/2/11, due to advising and registration issues. Please take advantage of the time to meet as a group and move forward on your projects. Synopses and rough sketches (very rough is OK) in paper OR digital format are due next Monday, 11/7/11. Your synopsis should be one-half page long. (many of you have this on your blogs already, so progress and research updates will suffice) Also on Monday, during the 2nd half of class, you will begin meeting as groups with me. Please be prepared to discuss your topics, plans, and progress. OK, I will see you Monday. As always, email your questions, or bring them to group meetings on Monday. Remember, blogs this week concern the Eames, and influences on your own information design.
Monday, October 17, 2011
TODAY: Monday, October 17th, 2011
Before you leave today:
I will need a piece of paper with your group members and your topic on it.
Homework for Wednesday:
1. Begin research into your topic. Start with your textbook. Look at the work of particular designers as you decide which one you would like to focus on. Look at nuances and outcroppings of your movement in search of your interests, your hook into the information.
2. Look at your group-mates' postings of their projects. On Wednesday you will discuss their information designs with them. Point out what is interesting and successful, also point out problems. Each student must have a positive comment as well as a suggestion for improvement for each of their group members. The discussion will then move into ways the students can collaborate on their current topic.
Wednesday:
We will work as a group to research. We will first meet in the classroom for roll and then go to the library for research into our topics. Each student must come away with a minimum of one book related somehow to their topic. Students will then work together in their group to hone their topic and come up with a general plan of action to carry them into the second half of the semester.
I will need a piece of paper with your group members and your topic on it.
Homework for Wednesday:
1. Begin research into your topic. Start with your textbook. Look at the work of particular designers as you decide which one you would like to focus on. Look at nuances and outcroppings of your movement in search of your interests, your hook into the information.
2. Look at your group-mates' postings of their projects. On Wednesday you will discuss their information designs with them. Point out what is interesting and successful, also point out problems. Each student must have a positive comment as well as a suggestion for improvement for each of their group members. The discussion will then move into ways the students can collaborate on their current topic.
Wednesday:
We will work as a group to research. We will first meet in the classroom for roll and then go to the library for research into our topics. Each student must come away with a minimum of one book related somehow to their topic. Students will then work together in their group to hone their topic and come up with a general plan of action to carry them into the second half of the semester.
FINAL PROJECTS
We will be working in groups of three or four students for our final project. Four students is the maximum number of students in a group; three students is the minimum. The students will choose their own groups, but each group must include a minimum of one graphic design major.
Students will come up with a more specific topic after detailed research into a particular design movement. The project will start with research and data gathering.
Finals will again be information designs around a chosen topic, but this time there will be three designs based on the same general topic. Each design will foreground a separate aspect of the main topic. The main topics will be chosen from the list in the blog post below.
The final will include a timeline with names and dates, a map, also with names and dates, and a third design, the structure of which is to be determined by the students.
Of the three designs, one design must concern the movement or main topic. One design must concern the work of a specific artist from the movement. The specific content of the third design is to be determined by the students in the group.
Included somewhere in the project, somewhere among the three designs, should be both social and artistic influences on the movement.
Again this project is in lieu of a research paper, but the project should include the same amount of research and information that would go into a final project paper on your topic.
We will reserve time at the end of each class from now until hell freezes over to work on these projects. A more specific timeline will be forthcoming. These projects must be printed and posted by Monday, December 5th. One of the three posters must be printed by midnight, November 30th. The second poster must be printed by Friday, December 2nd.
These projects must be posted to your blogs as well as to the wall. Each student must post all three of the designs from the group to their blog.
Students will come up with a more specific topic after detailed research into a particular design movement. The project will start with research and data gathering.
Finals will again be information designs around a chosen topic, but this time there will be three designs based on the same general topic. Each design will foreground a separate aspect of the main topic. The main topics will be chosen from the list in the blog post below.
The final will include a timeline with names and dates, a map, also with names and dates, and a third design, the structure of which is to be determined by the students.
Of the three designs, one design must concern the movement or main topic. One design must concern the work of a specific artist from the movement. The specific content of the third design is to be determined by the students in the group.
Included somewhere in the project, somewhere among the three designs, should be both social and artistic influences on the movement.
Again this project is in lieu of a research paper, but the project should include the same amount of research and information that would go into a final project paper on your topic.
We will reserve time at the end of each class from now until hell freezes over to work on these projects. A more specific timeline will be forthcoming. These projects must be printed and posted by Monday, December 5th. One of the three posters must be printed by midnight, November 30th. The second poster must be printed by Friday, December 2nd.
These projects must be posted to your blogs as well as to the wall. Each student must post all three of the designs from the group to their blog.
POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR FINAL PROJECTS
Egyptian Hieroglyphs / early Egyptian Visual Identification
Illuminated Manuscripts
Arts and Crafts
The Glasgow School
Wiener Werkstätte
World War I propaganda / World War II propaganda
Futurism
Dada
De Stijl
Russian Revolution/Bolshevik Poster/Suprematism and Constructivism
Bauhaus
American Pulp Magazines in the 1920's
American Magazines in the 1940's and after (Fortune, Vogue, Harper's)
Swiss International Typographic Style
The New York School (Rand, Lustig, Bass)
graphic evolution of corporate identity
evolution of the comic strip
Underground Comics
Gig Posters
Graffiti (american, east and west coast developments)
Graffiti (international)
Video Games
Illuminated Manuscripts
Arts and Crafts
The Glasgow School
Wiener Werkstätte
World War I propaganda / World War II propaganda
Futurism
Dada
De Stijl
Russian Revolution/Bolshevik Poster/Suprematism and Constructivism
Bauhaus
American Pulp Magazines in the 1920's
American Magazines in the 1940's and after (Fortune, Vogue, Harper's)
Swiss International Typographic Style
The New York School (Rand, Lustig, Bass)
graphic evolution of corporate identity
evolution of the comic strip
Underground Comics
Gig Posters
Graffiti (american, east and west coast developments)
Graffiti (international)
Video Games
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Design Principles Based on Gestalt Psychology:
equilibrium
simplicity/equilibrium/cohesion:
universal striving of organisms toward balance
closure
natural tendency to close gaps
organization/visual perception
curved line appears part of a circle, a straight line continues as a straight line
similarity
visual units resembling each other in shape, size, color, and direction will be seen as a group
proximity in visual perception
closest things unite into a group
simplicity/equilibrium/cohesion:
universal striving of organisms toward balance
closure
natural tendency to close gaps
organization/visual perception
curved line appears part of a circle, a straight line continues as a straight line
similarity
visual units resembling each other in shape, size, color, and direction will be seen as a group
proximity in visual perception
closest things unite into a group
FOR MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27:
1.Post a total of 5 images, each of a very different version/design/iteration/interpretation of camouflage.
2.Post a total of 5 images of a functional object, like a teapot for example, each of a very different design/interpretation of the object, different interpretations of teapot for example. Make sure that the means of production span a broad range across your images, from artisan to industrial.
3. Post a few images from Yellow Submarine and discuss briefly what you find interesting in relation either to your own design ideas or in relation to the history of design.
4. There is not so much writing this week so read a lot: pp.68 - 132 in our textbooks - this will bring you from Art Nouveau in Britain, Scotland, Germany and Austria through Sachplakat and into the first world war. Spend time looking at the gorgeous plates in your textbooks.
2.Post a total of 5 images of a functional object, like a teapot for example, each of a very different design/interpretation of the object, different interpretations of teapot for example. Make sure that the means of production span a broad range across your images, from artisan to industrial.
3. Post a few images from Yellow Submarine and discuss briefly what you find interesting in relation either to your own design ideas or in relation to the history of design.
4. There is not so much writing this week so read a lot: pp.68 - 132 in our textbooks - this will bring you from Art Nouveau in Britain, Scotland, Germany and Austria through Sachplakat and into the first world war. Spend time looking at the gorgeous plates in your textbooks.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
for Mon Sept. 12
Art Nouveau in the USA, England, and Scotland - please read in your textbook pp. 49 - 76
Your blog post should be notes from the documentary Mr. Bing.
Your blog post should be notes from the documentary Mr. Bing.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Example Nouveau
Leonetto Cappiello
Maurin Quina Le Puy France
1906
image found here...
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BLOG POSTING due Tuesday, September Sixth
Art Nouveau
Part One:
3 Designers:
Choose three designers from your textbook and paraphrase traits of their work. For each designer, find three images on the internet that represent the characteristics of their work as described in the book. Save these images to your desktop and re-post these images to your blog. Do not link the images to your blog - these are more-often-than-not broken when I look at them. If you need to take a screen shot, crop it, and re-post it, that will be fine, but again - do not link images to your blog post - that does not work. Post a link below your image back to the original image. This is classwork, educational practice, and is therefore not susceptible to the same copyright rules as the professional world. If you simply link back to the original, that will be fine. Also include the name, date, title, artist for each work. 3 designs x 3 designers = 9 images to be posted, each described for there relevance to the textbook's characterization of the designer.
Part Two:
Art Nouveau, a production designer's perspective:
Compare and contrast the world of Art Nouveau in Carroll Moore's Toulouse-Lautrec and Monmarte and in the examples of Toulouse-Lautrec's art and design from the time to Catherine Martin's production design for Moulin Rouge, 2002, dir. Baz Luhrmann. What do you see re-presented in the film that you see foregrounded in the documentary, in the artwork of the time? How does Catherine Martin's Monmarte differ from Moore's and why? How might Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings differ from his posters in terms of their possible influence on the design of the film? Post one painting and one poster each from Toulouse-Lautrec that you feel had an influence on the production design of Moulin Rouge, 2002 and briefly explain.
Part One:
3 Designers:
Choose three designers from your textbook and paraphrase traits of their work. For each designer, find three images on the internet that represent the characteristics of their work as described in the book. Save these images to your desktop and re-post these images to your blog. Do not link the images to your blog - these are more-often-than-not broken when I look at them. If you need to take a screen shot, crop it, and re-post it, that will be fine, but again - do not link images to your blog post - that does not work. Post a link below your image back to the original image. This is classwork, educational practice, and is therefore not susceptible to the same copyright rules as the professional world. If you simply link back to the original, that will be fine. Also include the name, date, title, artist for each work. 3 designs x 3 designers = 9 images to be posted, each described for there relevance to the textbook's characterization of the designer.
Part Two:
Art Nouveau, a production designer's perspective:
Compare and contrast the world of Art Nouveau in Carroll Moore's Toulouse-Lautrec and Monmarte and in the examples of Toulouse-Lautrec's art and design from the time to Catherine Martin's production design for Moulin Rouge, 2002, dir. Baz Luhrmann. What do you see re-presented in the film that you see foregrounded in the documentary, in the artwork of the time? How does Catherine Martin's Monmarte differ from Moore's and why? How might Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings differ from his posters in terms of their possible influence on the design of the film? Post one painting and one poster each from Toulouse-Lautrec that you feel had an influence on the production design of Moulin Rouge, 2002 and briefly explain.
A recent email, sent to your student emails:
Design Historians,
Please check the link to your blog here:
http://www.pixelcola.net/HistoryOfDesign.FA11.html
If the link is incorrect or missing, please re-send it. Please make sure this and all email subject headings relating to this class are:
ARH3990 2302 HISTORY OF DESIGN
Design Historians,
Please check the link to your blog here:
http://www.pixelcola.net/HistoryOfDesign.FA11.html
If the link is incorrect or missing, please re-send it. Please make sure this and all email subject headings relating to this class are:
ARH3990 2302 HISTORY OF DESIGN
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
FIRST BLOG POSTING due August 27th
Your first blog post, due by midnight Saturday night, August 27th, should concern your reading for this week (Psy-Push) as well as the screening on the Wendy Keys documentary Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight.
You will not need to post anything on Art Nouveau/Toulouse-Lautrec this week, that will be the next Saturday Evening Post, due midnight Saturday night, September 3.
You will not need to post anything on Art Nouveau/Toulouse-Lautrec this week, that will be the next Saturday Evening Post, due midnight Saturday night, September 3.
Assigned Reading for Monday, August 29th
Please read pp. 33-49 in our textbook, Graphic Design: A New History:
French Art Nouveau
French Art Nouveau
Monday, August 22, 2011
Assigned Reading for Wednesday, August 24th:
Please read the following for Wednesday, August 24th:
pp. 336 - 348 in Graphic Design: A New History
The following sections:
Psychedelic Posters
British Psychedelics
Magazine and Album Design
Early Postmodernism
Push Pin
Album, Poster and Magazine Design
pp. 336 - 348 in Graphic Design: A New History
The following sections:
Psychedelic Posters
British Psychedelics
Magazine and Album Design
Early Postmodernism
Push Pin
Album, Poster and Magazine Design
Thursday, July 21, 2011
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