Course detail

History of Design 1 - summer

FaVU-DEDE1-LAcad. year: 2020/2021

The history of graphic and industrial design and their formation after the World War II. The prototype of designer activities in traditional disciplines of handmade work and applied arts. The birth of the designer´s profession in the first period of the industrial revolution and its further transformations.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Vít Jakubíček

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The history of graphic and industrial design and their formation after the World War II.

Prerequisites

Without.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lecture, presentation of digital image database.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Exam conditions: passed written test based on explained topics, minimum result 80%.

Course curriculum

1. Typographic experiments from the 19th century to the World War I (Mallarmé, Apollinaire, futurism, dadaism).
2. Czech cubism in applied arts.
3.-4. Bauhaus.
5. Russian avant-garde.
6. Modernism in Holland.
7. Modernism in the Czech lands and Central Europe.
8.-9. Art Deco.
10.-11. Design in the US between two world wars.
12. Final recapitulation.

Work placements

Not applicable.

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.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

recommended co-requisite
History of Design - winter

Basic literature

Knobloch, I. - Vondráček, R.: Design v českých zemích 1900-2000: Instituce moderního designu (CS)
Kolesár, Z.: Kapitoly z dějin designu
Kolesár, Z.: Kapitoly z dejín grafického dizajnu (CS)
Meggs, P.B.: Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Sparke, P.: Století designu

Type of course unit

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Vít Jakubíček

Syllabus

1. Typografické experimenty od konce 19. století po 1. svitovou válku (Mallarmé, Apollinaire, futurizmus, dadaizmus).
2. Eeský kubizmus v užitém uminí
3.-4. Bauhaus .
5. Ruská avantgarda.
6. Moderna v Holandsku.
7. Moderna v Eechách a ve stoední Evropi.
8. -9. Art déco.
10. - 11. Meziváleený design v USA.
12. Závěrečná rekapitulace

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

History of Design 1 - summer

Type of course unit