Key Ideas:
ISOTYPE
Ladislav Sutnar
Design for Information
Herbet Bayer
Modernism
NY School/ American Design
Lester Beal
Paul Rand
Alexey Brodovitch
Age of Information
Claude Shannon
International Style
School at ULM
International Style of Typography
Early Swiss Design
Theo Ballmer and Max Bill
Anton Stankowski
Max Miedinger
Information started to become a design aspect in the later years, and design had to learn to adapt to large amount of information and organize it. Patters became more and more popular due to the repeating forms and consistency. Ladislav Sutnar created a spread showing different door nobs and organized it in a graphic way, many catalogs for hardware follow this same style showing icons and uses paired with information about the product. A need for international design became apparent because of languages coming together so design had to reflect the ideas of multilingual and by finding an universal language of form and typography, this led to Swiss Design. Swiss design started a rational approach to swiss design, by using concrete forms. Stankowski on the other hand used abstract forms. Clarity of means and forms were strongly important to Swiss Design, because it can be placed anywhere.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Laws of Media
Laws of Media: The Knife
1. The Knife extends the human body parts of the teeth and nails. The Knife is used for cutting and stabbing. It extends the human bodies physical aspects by allowing it save it's naturally sharp forms for eating and other more basic needs. It also helps the individual more so then the society because its made for one hand not many.
2. The knife replaces sharp stones and weighted objects that had to be combined to cut through materials. Like the arrowhead used by Native Americans, it's sharp and pointed for stabbing and cutting but is fixed with a handle so that a person can wield it without having to grab onto any part of the blade. The old objects become collector items for museums and have become rendered useless due to the advanced materials that allow the knife to last longer and stay sharper.
3. The Knife revies the ideas of caveman till whenever guns became the major weapon in war. Swords, spears, and axes are all similar to the knife. All of these are made from the same basic idea of sharp metal or stone, fixed with handle to protect the user. Not the victim. The knife also revives the idea of close combat relying on the user, not the weapon.
4. When fully pushed the knife will revert into war. Made for hunting and eating, the knife will become war after all it's other uses are exhausted.
The knife started out as a tool for man to hunt and survive, allowing man to kill animals and skin and gut them so they can eat only the parts they need. It also was adapted into arrows that allow them to be used at ranged, even more promoting the survivability of man. But time has found other uses for it such as hurting another or threatening.
1. The Knife extends the human body parts of the teeth and nails. The Knife is used for cutting and stabbing. It extends the human bodies physical aspects by allowing it save it's naturally sharp forms for eating and other more basic needs. It also helps the individual more so then the society because its made for one hand not many.
2. The knife replaces sharp stones and weighted objects that had to be combined to cut through materials. Like the arrowhead used by Native Americans, it's sharp and pointed for stabbing and cutting but is fixed with a handle so that a person can wield it without having to grab onto any part of the blade. The old objects become collector items for museums and have become rendered useless due to the advanced materials that allow the knife to last longer and stay sharper.
3. The Knife revies the ideas of caveman till whenever guns became the major weapon in war. Swords, spears, and axes are all similar to the knife. All of these are made from the same basic idea of sharp metal or stone, fixed with handle to protect the user. Not the victim. The knife also revives the idea of close combat relying on the user, not the weapon.
4. When fully pushed the knife will revert into war. Made for hunting and eating, the knife will become war after all it's other uses are exhausted.
The knife started out as a tool for man to hunt and survive, allowing man to kill animals and skin and gut them so they can eat only the parts they need. It also was adapted into arrows that allow them to be used at ranged, even more promoting the survivability of man. But time has found other uses for it such as hurting another or threatening.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Lecture 6
Tschichold
Dutch Modernism
Paul Shoetema
Hendrick N Werkman
Piet Zwat
Post Cubism and Art Deco
AM Cassandre
E McKnight Kauffer
Joseph Binder
WWII Propaganda
Ludwig Hohlwein
Herbert Matter
Art Deco Moderne
Todays lecture we continued where we left off with Tschicold and his progressions in type, his experiments are style around today with his purely visual communication. He created a new style that is prominate in swiss design. We then focused on some new emerging artist who invented a style that either has or will have another trend. Binder probably the most know Vacation poster designer truly invented a unique style that made everything appear futuristic but remaining in the current time, almost taking the flaws out of everything. We than looked at WWII proganda art that hitler would soon reject and ban. Ludwig Hohlwien pioneered the classic Olympic look that keeps being re invented each year the games are around. Matter created a new style of poster by using large images and then placing smaller ones behind creating a new style of depth that many people havent explored. The images look similiar to modern day movie posters or DVD covers that you would find in many big name production studios.
Dutch Modernism
Paul Shoetema
Hendrick N Werkman
Piet Zwat
Post Cubism and Art Deco
AM Cassandre
E McKnight Kauffer
Joseph Binder
WWII Propaganda
Ludwig Hohlwein
Herbert Matter
Art Deco Moderne
Todays lecture we continued where we left off with Tschicold and his progressions in type, his experiments are style around today with his purely visual communication. He created a new style that is prominate in swiss design. We then focused on some new emerging artist who invented a style that either has or will have another trend. Binder probably the most know Vacation poster designer truly invented a unique style that made everything appear futuristic but remaining in the current time, almost taking the flaws out of everything. We than looked at WWII proganda art that hitler would soon reject and ban. Ludwig Hohlwien pioneered the classic Olympic look that keeps being re invented each year the games are around. Matter created a new style of poster by using large images and then placing smaller ones behind creating a new style of depth that many people havent explored. The images look similiar to modern day movie posters or DVD covers that you would find in many big name production studios.
Design Discourse
The New Typography
-Communication in it's most intense form
-Legibility communication must never be impaired
-Zincography
-Film will replace literature
-Posters must act with immediate impact on all psychological receptalces
-The new typography is a simultaneous experience of vision and communication.
The new typography placed a strong view on clarity and legibility. But with this idea comes the backlash of everyone starting to produce the same work because of clarity and legibility because once something works and works well, it becomes standardized, destroying it's idea of difference. 
With film becoming more popular in design and just plain text losing it's strength, we have to look at how constructivism used photos to attack all senses which follows the idea of impacting the psychological receptacles. With planes in the air, you feel the power of war and the fist of the people relates to the you would fight for and their strength, all of this so you would do your part for your country. Not to mention that constructivism led the way for typography. 
Old books (including the 42 page bible) used to have excess flair and design around the type which led to them competing on the page neither would win, but new typography had to learn how to separate but make equal the legibility and clarity while still working with images.
Dematerialization of Screen Space
-Displacement (of the observer)
-Demarcation (of new boundaries)
-Dematterialization (of what is being observed)
The computer monitor allows us to see what it on the internet, within a confined area (displacement). Outside the walls of our screen is so much more but accessing all of that at once, is impossible. The internet is alot like a camera, before the picture you see everything but as soon as you snap a shot, that idea becomes confined to a smaller area which has hard edges. 
If one was to the look at the internet, they would guess its constantly moving and changing, well the internet won't move unless you move in it. Pages upon pages while in still boredom until accessed by a viewer. The only item to understand this idea is "Tivo" the fact that it gave the show a rating for being "tivo'd" which is the same as if you had watched the show at it's correct time (dematerialization). The Tivo replaced the viewer but not his job.
What used to be "going out ole' Cali' way" has no become exploring the internet for it's an uncharted, cheap, expansive resource that California turned out not to be (demarcation). For moving out to California would make life easy because of the all the gold "in dem der hills" the internet has made life easier by allowing portable media to be accessed anywhere anytime, which woud take libraries and books to find out where nigeria is located, it takes 5 seconds on wikipedia for the same inforation.
-Communication in it's most intense form
-Legibility communication must never be impaired
-Zincography
-Film will replace literature
-Posters must act with immediate impact on all psychological receptalces
-The new typography is a simultaneous experience of vision and communication.
With film becoming more popular in design and just plain text losing it's strength, we have to look at how constructivism used photos to attack all senses which follows the idea of impacting the psychological receptacles. With planes in the air, you feel the power of war and the fist of the people relates to the you would fight for and their strength, all of this so you would do your part for your country. Not to mention that constructivism led the way for typography. 
Old books (including the 42 page bible) used to have excess flair and design around the type which led to them competing on the page neither would win, but new typography had to learn how to separate but make equal the legibility and clarity while still working with images.Dematerialization of Screen Space
-Displacement (of the observer)
-Demarcation (of new boundaries)
-Dematterialization (of what is being observed)
The computer monitor allows us to see what it on the internet, within a confined area (displacement). Outside the walls of our screen is so much more but accessing all of that at once, is impossible. The internet is alot like a camera, before the picture you see everything but as soon as you snap a shot, that idea becomes confined to a smaller area which has hard edges. 
If one was to the look at the internet, they would guess its constantly moving and changing, well the internet won't move unless you move in it. Pages upon pages while in still boredom until accessed by a viewer. The only item to understand this idea is "Tivo" the fact that it gave the show a rating for being "tivo'd" which is the same as if you had watched the show at it's correct time (dematerialization). The Tivo replaced the viewer but not his job. 
What used to be "going out ole' Cali' way" has no become exploring the internet for it's an uncharted, cheap, expansive resource that California turned out not to be (demarcation). For moving out to California would make life easy because of the all the gold "in dem der hills" the internet has made life easier by allowing portable media to be accessed anywhere anytime, which woud take libraries and books to find out where nigeria is located, it takes 5 seconds on wikipedia for the same inforation.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Lecture 5
Architecture/Furniture- New international style
Dutch Design
Revolutionary design in furniture
Bauhaus
Weimar republic progressed in Russia
Moholy Nagy- Functionalism
Universal Type Face
The Bauhaus at Dessau
Herbert Bayer
Jan Tschichold and the New Typography- Functional
Dutch Modernism
White space
We started the lecture by watching a movie on the Bauhaus school, which all design and modernism took great strides thanks to the ideas of shapes and colors. Much what the school produced was based on function, which ruled supreme, so material beauty was outdone by functional beauty. As those ideas grew so the graphic side, the universal type face was created to make a font that had no flair but was functional everywhere, keeping with the idea of no external beauty but functionality. Clean lines and no excess is what made the school popular. All lead to modernism.White space became extremely popular allowing designers to play with position and the area around the texts that we now use as negative space. Architecture was revolutionized by Bauhaus in that modern houses have the same shapes and styling that building was designed in. Tschichold created the new international standard for type, the origins of swiss design.
Dutch Design
Revolutionary design in furniture
Bauhaus
Weimar republic progressed in Russia
Moholy Nagy- Functionalism
Universal Type Face
The Bauhaus at Dessau
Herbert Bayer
Jan Tschichold and the New Typography- Functional
Dutch Modernism
White space
We started the lecture by watching a movie on the Bauhaus school, which all design and modernism took great strides thanks to the ideas of shapes and colors. Much what the school produced was based on function, which ruled supreme, so material beauty was outdone by functional beauty. As those ideas grew so the graphic side, the universal type face was created to make a font that had no flair but was functional everywhere, keeping with the idea of no external beauty but functionality. Clean lines and no excess is what made the school popular. All lead to modernism.White space became extremely popular allowing designers to play with position and the area around the texts that we now use as negative space. Architecture was revolutionized by Bauhaus in that modern houses have the same shapes and styling that building was designed in. Tschichold created the new international standard for type, the origins of swiss design.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Lecture 4
20th graphic design based on two styles: Suprematism and Constructivism
Minimalism- Pure Form
"Cubo-Futurism"
The emergence of the Constructivist Movement- 5 yrs between 1917 and 1922
Goals of Constructivism- Forge a new world of objects for a new social order.
Photographs become main idea in designs, which leads to photomontage
Lines, Shapes and Arrows used to direct eye around design.
Rodchenko and Lissitzky, both constructivist
Modern graphic language becomes characterized by geometric forms and high-contrast arrangements.
Late Constructivism was instrumental in placing the radical typographic forms
Theater design
“professional identity” for modern graphic design.
De Stijl
Mondrian
Without Soviet Russia, design would have gone nowhere. Pushing the boundaries of type and image helped progress the constructivist movement to new heights that no designer has done before. Lissitzky is by far one of my favorite artist through his use of minimalism and color, he was by far ahead of his time in that area, because that style is starting to reappear in modern times and very popular to the mass public now. Photos became more dominate in designs leaving behind hand drawn images. Sharp angles and strange rotations help promote the idea of strength. Mondrian who helped build upon the ideas that Lissitzky laid down as a foundation but he used his own style of grids which he is popular for. As time continues to go on constructivism still stands strong just like the idea that they were putting out at the time, design would not have progressed without the ideas from Russia and the designers that followed it.
Minimalism- Pure Form
"Cubo-Futurism"
The emergence of the Constructivist Movement- 5 yrs between 1917 and 1922
Goals of Constructivism- Forge a new world of objects for a new social order.
Photographs become main idea in designs, which leads to photomontage
Lines, Shapes and Arrows used to direct eye around design.
Rodchenko and Lissitzky, both constructivist
Modern graphic language becomes characterized by geometric forms and high-contrast arrangements.
Late Constructivism was instrumental in placing the radical typographic forms
Theater design
“professional identity” for modern graphic design.
De Stijl
Mondrian
Without Soviet Russia, design would have gone nowhere. Pushing the boundaries of type and image helped progress the constructivist movement to new heights that no designer has done before. Lissitzky is by far one of my favorite artist through his use of minimalism and color, he was by far ahead of his time in that area, because that style is starting to reappear in modern times and very popular to the mass public now. Photos became more dominate in designs leaving behind hand drawn images. Sharp angles and strange rotations help promote the idea of strength. Mondrian who helped build upon the ideas that Lissitzky laid down as a foundation but he used his own style of grids which he is popular for. As time continues to go on constructivism still stands strong just like the idea that they were putting out at the time, design would not have progressed without the ideas from Russia and the designers that followed it.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Lecture 3
Key Ideas:
Pictorial Modernism
Cubism replaced a rendering of natural appearances with purely invented form.
Synthetic Cubism
Constructivist Movement
Plakastil/ Sachplakat used in propaganda for Axis powers.
Realism vs Abstraction
German Art absorbes Cubism, French advertising art, the lettering, typography and spatial origination.
Ludwig Hohlwein
Futurism/DADA/Cubism/Surrealism= Modern Art
Visual And Literary Materiality In Modern Art
Simultaneity
Duchamp
Iconoclast
John Heartfield/Photomontage
Surrealism-1924
Automatism
Lecture 3 started out with a quick run up on Plaskastil and how minimalism started become more popular. Followed by the cubist movement which changed the way everyone looked at art. Cubism lead the so many different genres of art, which is why it is my favorite genre. Design then changed toward to get the message across faster, which became even more popular when the war started. I've always been a big fan of propaganda style art and being able to see all the influences that impacted how the style grew up is really cool. After that graphic design began to get really strange and out there. Maybe too stange for my taste, though I did like some of the DADA style with their use of typography and image. That modern style is still around today and becoming a trend again in clothing styles and designs.
Pictorial Modernism
Cubism replaced a rendering of natural appearances with purely invented form.
Synthetic Cubism
Constructivist Movement
Plakastil/ Sachplakat used in propaganda for Axis powers.
Realism vs Abstraction
German Art absorbes Cubism, French advertising art, the lettering, typography and spatial origination.
Ludwig Hohlwein
Futurism/DADA/Cubism/Surrealism= Modern Art
Visual And Literary Materiality In Modern Art
Simultaneity
Duchamp
Iconoclast
John Heartfield/Photomontage
Surrealism-1924
Automatism
Lecture 3 started out with a quick run up on Plaskastil and how minimalism started become more popular. Followed by the cubist movement which changed the way everyone looked at art. Cubism lead the so many different genres of art, which is why it is my favorite genre. Design then changed toward to get the message across faster, which became even more popular when the war started. I've always been a big fan of propaganda style art and being able to see all the influences that impacted how the style grew up is really cool. After that graphic design began to get really strange and out there. Maybe too stange for my taste, though I did like some of the DADA style with their use of typography and image. That modern style is still around today and becoming a trend again in clothing styles and designs.
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