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Victorian Infographics
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
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