review notes: test two

test two: review[what you need to know]

test two: review

10 multiple choice (.5 pt each) = 5 pts

8 short answer (1 pt each) = 8 pts

1 essay (7 pts) = 7 pts

Total of 60 mins + 20% of final grade

Week 9: Technology+ProgressThe Bauhaus: a unity of art and craft // art and technology

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Who are these men?

In what ways were they engaged in theories or debates of art and technology?

What role did these men play in the establishment modern design education?

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Johannes Itten1888 - 1967

New personal experiences and discoveries would lead to a “new way of seeing”

Principles of the Vorkurs

• Feeling and Thinking (heart)

• Intuition and Intellect (head)

• Expression and Construction (hands)

Gymnastics leading to studies of rhythmic form

and movement

Colour Theory, Itten Vogelthema,J ohannes

Itten, 1918

Balance + Asymmetry + Rhythm + Repetition + Hierarchy = Composition

Hierarchy

Repetition

Rhythm/movement

Asymmetry

Balance

Johannes Itten

art and technology“a new unity” 1923

László Moholy-Nagy

Before the machine, everyone is equal… There is no tradition in technology, no consciousness of class or standing. Everybody can be the machine’s slave or master.

Lázsló Maholy–Nagy1895 - 1946

“Reality is a measure of human thinking. It is the means by which we orientate

ourselves in the universe. This reality of our century is technology: the invention,

the construction and the maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to

be of the spirit of the century.”

Haptic

awareness

Pestalozzi

Awareness of SpaceCompositional

understanding

Itten

Spatial

discovery

Maholy-Nagy Marcel Breuer

“Wassily chair”

Marcel Breuer B3 for Thonet,; KAISERidell 6631 R Luxus Lamp by Christian Dell;

Kubus stacking containers by Wilhelm Wagenfeld ; Marcel Breuer, Model B32 for

Thonet

How do these

object represent

the „new unity‟ of

art and technology

at the Bauhaus?

*think about use of materials,

manufacturing methods, and

economic context of German

design in the interwar period…

What is the relationship between these two images? How do they

relate to or embody the search for a „universal visual language‟ at

the Bauhaus?

Week 10: Kaupapa Maori Designchallenging the ‘modernist’ paradigm

What might be gained by synthesising these two „world views‟

What is Nga Aho and is this group‟s principle aim?

Week: 11The Politics of Design

Cold War

European Military

Alliances

What is the relationship between these two images?

How was the cold war “fought” and what was the role of design “on the front line of

defense”?

the Marshall Plan: containment through consumerism

freedom =

consumerism

What was this event and how was design used as

propaganda for „American democracy‟?

[designed by Charles and Ray Eames

for American National Exhibition

Sokolniki Park, Moscow, 1959]

post-modernism and the remix

„Less is more‟ or „less is a bore‟?Postmodern Chairs: Venturi and Scott Brown, 1977

complexity and contradiction[Venturi, 1966]

[We] can no longer afford to be intimidated by the puritanically moral

language of orthodox Modern architecture. I like elements which are

hybrid rather than “pure,” compromising rather than “clean,”

distorted rather than “straightforward,” ambiguous rather than

“articulated,” perverse as well as impersonal, boring as well as

“interesting,” conventional rather than “designed,” accommodating

rather than excluding, redundant rather than simple, vestigial as well

as innovating, inconsistent and equivocal rather than direct and

clear. I am for messy vitality over obvious unity.

“less is a bore”

What were some of the postmodernist objections to modernism?

What is “messy vitality” (Venturi) and how does it relate to the strictly

rational aesthetic and ideology of modernism?

Alex MacIntyre, “Trip Box” installed at Maples Department Store, London, 1970-1

How did the youth culture and experimental attitudes of the

1970s influence design and begin to break down „modernist‟

paradigms?

In what ways do both of these

images represent reactions to

the modernist paradigm?

How do they express larger

cultural changes in this period?

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What is so „Postmodern‟ in this image?

What‟s so important about the „remix manifesto‟ (for the future of design )?