Sunday 13 March 2011

Week 10

12th MAY 2011


DISCUSSIONS ABOUT 1500 WORD ILLUSTRATED ESSAY

Illustrated Essay 
Compare and contrast the work of two designers from the middle or late 20th century. Choose two architects, furniture designers, interior designers or graphic designers. People who are working in the same discipline. Research and illustrate  the aspects in which they have something in common and where their visual languages diverge. It would be interesting to also discuss how each of them influenced the future of design if at all.

-1950 onwards
-designers in same era.
similar artists, different styles.
x2 designers






*Didactic - Telling you what it is. The message, just it straight forward.


-Was about perspective, geometric.
-Testing readability of words.
-playing around - his OLD/NEW poster.

-He thought that all new things come from the OLD, so he tried to show that with his work. 

*CONCEPTUAL

-he always explains his didactic.
-he contemporary, simple solutions styles.
- his work makes you think hard about it.
-bringing shakespeare to modern art.

*MODERN REJUVENATION*

*INFLUENCES
-ART DECO - geometric, colours, repetition

-he turns words into images.*
-QURIKY
wants the "I GET IT!" Factor.
-CREATIVE



SWISS INTERNATIONAL STYLE 1945 - 1985

Based on new typography.

-named because of its origin.
-swiss perspective for social usefulness
-extreme abstraction
-commercial and domestic
-simplicity/minimalism.


***MIES VAN DER ROHE






LATE MODERN 1945 - 1970

**Hitler closed down BAUHAUS, designers left to FRANCE && NEW YORK.

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