Course detail
History of Design 2 - summer
FaVU-DEDE2-LAcad. year: 2017/2018
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.
Supervisor
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.
- compulsory co-requisite
Co-requisites
Not applicable.
Recommended optional programme components
Not applicable.
Recommended or required reading
Sparke, P.: Století designu
Meggs, P.B.: Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Knobloch I., - Vondráček R.: Design v českých zemích 1900-2000: Instituce moderního designu (CS)
Kolesár, Z.: Kapitoly z dějin designu (CS)
Kolesár, Z.: Kapitoly z dejín grafického dizajnu (CS)
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.
Language of instruction
Czech
Work placements
Not applicable.
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.
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.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme Master's
branch APD , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional
branch AGD1 , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional
branch AGD2 , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional
branch AM3 , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional
branch AM2 , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional
branch AS2 , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional
branch AKG , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional
branch AM1 , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional
branch AS1 , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional
branch ATD , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional
branch AIN , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional
branch AMU , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional
branch AVI , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional
branch AEN , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional - Programme Master's
branch () , 1. year of study, summer semester, 3 credits, optional