Course detail

History of Design II - summer

FaVU-DEDE2-LAcad. year: 2011/2012

The course focuses on the history of graphic and industrial design from the World War II to present days. It deals mainly with the image or product which is multiplied in a mechanized way. It also focuses on the solitary creation and the overlaps of applied and free art to the period after the World War II. It refers to the prototype of designer activities in the traditional disciplines of handicraft and applied arts. It also refers to the origin of the designer´s profession during the first industrial revolution and to its further transformations.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. PhDr. Zdeno Kolesár, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Basic knowledge of developmental tendencies in the areas of industrial and graphic design and of their major issues and personalities.

Prerequisites

History of Design I.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Exam conditions: Identification and interpretation of selected examples from the history of design according to projected transparencies (5 sets of transparencies) - in writing together with a talk.

Course curriculum

1/ Psychedelic wave in applied graphics in the 1960s.
2/-3/ Start of postmodernism in the 1970s. Alchimia, Memphis and E. Sottsasse.
4/ Post-punk applied graphics, Neville Brody.
5/-6/ Postmodernism of the 1980s.
7/ High-tech 1970s-1990s.
8/ Wolfgang Weingart and Californian "new wave"
9/ Computers in graphic design.
10/ David Carson and "end of print".
11/ Convergence of modernism and postmodernism in the 1990s.
12/ Prognosis of further development in the area of design.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To obtain historic-theoretical background which can be used during the solution of practical tasks.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Lectures are optional.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

compulsory co-requisite
History of Design II - winter

Basic literature

Kolesár, Z.: Kapitoly z dějin designu (CS)
Kolesár, Z.: Kapitoly z dejín grafického dizajnu (CS)
Meggs, P.B.: Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Sparke, P.: Století designu

Type of course unit

Lecture

338 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. PhDr. Zdeno Kolesár, Ph.D.

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

History of Design II - summer

Type of course unit