Course detail
History of Design 2 - winter
FaVU-DEDE2-ZAcad. 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.
Co-requisites
Not applicable.
Recommended optional programme components
Not applicable.
Recommended or required reading
Meggs, P.B.: Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Kolesár, Z.: Kapitoly z dějin designu
Knobloch, I. - Vondráček, R.: Design v českých zemích 1900-2000: Instituce moderního designu (CS)
Kolesár, Z.: Kapitoly z dejín grafického dizajnu (CS)
Sparke, P.: Století designu (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
Credit conditions: passed written test based on explained topics, minimum result 80% .
Language of instruction
Czech
Work placements
Not applicable.
Course curriculum
1/ Graphic design and political and military propaganda (period of World War II).
2/ Design of the late 1940s and of the 1950s.
3/ Scandinavian design.
4/ Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm and production of the Braun company.
5/ Polish poster.
6/ Graphic design in the 1950s in the USA - development of the concept of Corporate Identity.
7/ Zdenek Kovář and "Kovář´s school".
8/ "Swiss school" in graphic design.
9/-10/ Italian "elegant modernism" in industrial design.
11/ Post-war Japanese graphic design.
12/ Italian "new wave".
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, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch AGD1 , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch AGD2 , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch AM3 , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch AM2 , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch AS2 , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch AKG , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch AM1 , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch AS1 , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch ATD , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch AIN , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch AMU , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch AVI , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective
branch AEN , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective - Programme Master's
branch () , 1. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, elective