ARH3990 2309 History of Design FA 2012

Blog Post 1:

Please post the following to your blog:
5 images that relate to Chapter 9 and Graphic Design during the Industrial Revolution and Victorian Era
5 images that relate to the Arts and Crafts movement
5 images that relate to the contemporary small press/slow design movement

Please download the images to your desktop and then post them up to your blogs, do not link the images to the original site as that may result in broken links in the future.

For each image give us the title, date, and designer (sometimes all three are not possible, so two at a minimum)

Discuss at a minimum of 300 words total:
Similarities and differences between the current small press movement and the Arts and Crafts movement
Similarities and differences between the current small press movement and Graphic Design during the Industrial Revolution and Victorian Era

Please read Chapters 9 and 10 in Meggs' History for Tuesday, September 11th.  In addition, please read the following page from Designing with Type Online, and familiarize yourself with type terminology:

Type Terminology:
http://www.designingwithtype.com/5/basics_terminology.php

In addition, please watch the linked short video on a small press in TN:
YEE HAW Industries on vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/10785053

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.

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

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

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.