Course detail
History of Design 2 - summer
FaVU-DEDE2-LAcad. year: 2023/2024
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.
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Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Lectures are optional.
Aims
Basic knowledge of developmental tendencies in the areas of industrial and graphic design and of their major issues and personalities.
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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
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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.