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Complete List of Terms (45 terms)
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| Herbert Matter |
What:designer/photographer
When:Early 20th cen
Where:Switzerland
pg.333
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| Rudolf Koch |
What:Typographer
When:Early 20th Cen
Where:Germany
pg.185
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| Max Miedinger |
What:Typography (helvetica)
When:Mid 20th Cen
Where:Switzerland
pg.361
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| Deutsche Werkbund |
Major artists/architects/designers:
- Hermann Muthesius
- Henri van de Velde
- Peter Behrens
- Josef Hoffmann
- Walter Gropius
- Richard Riemerschmid
- Ludwig Mies Van derRohe
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| Opposition |
making statements counter to prevailing commercial culture
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| Deborah Sussman |
Los Angeles Olympics 1985
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| Prominent NeoModern Artists(4) |
-Matthew Carter-Jonathan Hoefler-Edward Tufte-Grundy and Northedge
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| Nicholas Jenson |
When: Mid 15th Cen
Where:Venice,Italy
What:Typographer
pg.94
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| Pablo Picasso |
Spanish , 1881-1973
Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
Guernica (1937)
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| Prominent Opposition Artists(4) |
-Tibor Kalman-Dan Friedman-Shawn Wolfe-the Guerilla Girls
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| Parody |
references to styles assuming the audience is familiar with the reference
(building on associations already inheirent in style)
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| Prominent Retro Artists(6) |
-Paula Scher-Neville Brody-Malcolm Garrett-Louis Fili-Charles S. Anderson-Tibor Kalman
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| Emigre magazine formed by... |
Rudy Vanderlans
Zuzana Licko
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| Aldus Manutius |
When:Late 15th Early 16th
What:Book Layout
Where:Italy
pg.100
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| Saul Bass |
-identity for Girl Scouts, AT&T-"Man with the Golden Arm"-strong figure/ground relationships
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| Three Prominenent Way-finding Designers |
Otl Aicher
Lance Wyman
Deborah Sussman
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| The “Retro” & “vernacular” design movement which originated in New York City during the 1980’s used what previous movements for important typographic inspiration? |
Russian constructivism
Art Deco
Art Nouveau
Victorian
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| http://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/1392/flashcards/882856/png/brun-gobelins-manufactory.png |
Le Brun/ Louis XIV Inspecting the Gobelins Manufactory-1670gobelin manufactory rushing to show Louis what they made him.Employ of gobelin=employ of Louis 14th.Division of labor-Le Brun designed the tapestry but didn't make it.
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| Deconstruction |
-not a style, but a "method of questioning"
-very experimental, leaning heavily on theory
-origins: Jacques Derrida: Of Grammatology
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| Glaser and Chwast introduced what ideas into the mainstream? |
-conceptual illustration
-revival of Victorian styles
-revival of art deco style
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| Which one of the four pioneers of the International style advocated that the solution to the design problem should emerge from its content? |
Ernst Keller
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| Avant Garde |
___ art in the early 20th Century
- Cubism
- Marcel Duchamp
- Futurism
- De Stijl
- Constructivism
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| Modern Furniture explored two opposing styles which were... |
1.) Sleek, machined materials (metal, glass)
2.) organic shapes and material (wood, plastic)
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| What was Wim’s Crouwel’s design philosophy |
"the designers is an objective problem solver who finds solutions through research and analysis; simplifys the message and means for conveying it to the audience"
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| Swiss graphic design is characterized by... |
1.) strict adherence to a grid
2.) sans serif type
3.) hierarchy of communication using weights and sizes of type
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| List the insights that occurred when Pat Gorman and Frank Olinsky were designing the MTV logo? |
their logo could be altered through infinite variations
could become many objects
could change the status quo that logos should remain the same
Constantly create new identification sequences on a collaborative basis
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| William Caslon |
When:Early 18th Cen
Where:England
What:Typographer
pg.121
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| John Baskerville |
When:Early 18th Cen
Where:England
What:Typographer
pg.121-123
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| Henri van de Velde |
(1863-1957)
Belgian,
Architect, Painter, Interior Designer
(Jardinière ca.1902)
Artistic self-expression
"To unite the two [art & industry] was to blend the
ideal and reality, resulting in the destruction of the
ideal"
"We will have no kind of responsibility for objects that
pay no attention to perfection, to the materials used,
and that are carried out without pleasure in work.
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| Herb Lubalin |
-started International Typeface Corporation-publication U&Ic-spearheaded movement in design using newly-design "photo-type", which was very customizable
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| NeoModern |
-cultivating the "look of information"-genuine, honest use of information graphics-good design can inform and advance society
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| A.M. Cassandre |
Where:
What:Post Cubist Pictorial Modernism
When:Early 20th Cen
What:Poster/Ads
Where: Paris, France
pg.281
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| Prominent Deconstruction Artists(5) |
-Katherine McCoy-Jeffery Keedy-Rick Valicenti-Studio Dumbar-Skolos and Wedell
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| Retro Design |
-borrows from previous styles and images
-may be a homage or may be parody
-evokes a sense of nostalgia
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| Margaret And Francis McDonald |
What:Glasgow School
When:Late 19th Cen
Where:Scottland
pg.223
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| Name the consulting designer who developed the Unigrid system for the National Park Service? |
Massimo Vignelli
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| Emigre magazine was... |
-graphic design magazine founded in 1984
-variety of layouts, use of guest designers, and opinionated articles
-Vanderlans and Licko
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| Five trends in PostModern design according to Meggs |
-Swiss typographic Experiments
-new wave typography
-Memphis and California architectonic mannerism
-retro and vernacular
-electronic revolution
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| First Phase of Modernism |
Themes:
• resistance to technology
- handcraft and guild structure
• new vision for new art
- rejection of historicism
• often looking to nature for aesthetic inspiration
- as a source of universal expression
• underlying social agenda
- design for every-man
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| Paul Rand |
-produced ads and images that made use of minimal, simple, almost child-like graphic elements-UPS logo-"subway posters score"
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| Werkbund (Successful Design for Industry) |
Peter Behrens' work for AEG
Gropius sleeping compartments for Mitropa
Deutsche Werkstatten in Hellerau
Founded by Richard Riemerschmid and Karl Schmidt
Factory fitted for handwork and semi-massproduction of
furniture and prefabricated houses
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| What’s interesting about Woody Pirtle’s work when he worked @ The Richard’s Group in Dallas? |
Epitomizes the originality of Texas graphics with unexpected wit
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| Be able to re-articulate at least four characteristics of the International Style |
Unity of design
objective photography
sans-serif fonts
the attitude developed by the pioneers about their profession
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| Memorize what George Lois (b. 1931) felt a magazine cover should capture? |
Two things. A magazine should capture the reader and should have a spirited comment on one major article
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