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Do you See the Afterimage of the Flag?



Time and Motion



Sassetta,

The Meeting of Saint Anthony and Saint

Paul , 1440

Time Made Visible



Motion

Alexander Calder¶s Mobiles

Kinetic sculpture=using actual motion



Calder at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.



Implied

Motion



Principles of Design

Leonardo da Vinci, Illustration

of Proportions of the Human

Figure, 1485-1490



Balance



Symmetrical Balance

Andy Warhol, Soup Cans, 1954



AsymmetricalBalance

Vermeer, W oman Holding a

Balance, 1664



Proportion and Scale

Annie Leibowitz, Wilt Chamber lain and

Willie Shoemaker



Claes Oldenburg and Coojie van Bruggen, S poon Bridge, 1985



Scale

Slinkachu



Concrete Ocean



Char les Simonds, Dwelling, 1970s



Michelangelo,David , 1502



Michelangelo, Pieta,

1500



Hokusai, T he Great W ave, 1823-29



Ancient Greece

The Parthenon, 447-438 B.C.E.

Polykleitos,Doryphoros, 450 B.C.E.



Focal Point

Jacques Louis David, T he Oath of the Horatii , 1784



Repetition and Rhythm

Jacob Lawrence , Ironers, 1945



Yukinori Yanagi, 'World Flag Ant Farm', (detail)., Ants, colored sand, plastic

boxes, tubing, Tokyo,1990

Unity and Variety



Yukinori Yanagi, 'World Flag Ant Farm', (detail)., Ants, colored sand, plastic boxes, tubing,

Tokyo,1990



Design



Mass Production

Im pact of the Industrial Revolution

The Arts and

Craft Movement

Technology



Morse telegraph,

1844

Steam Railway

Locomotive,

1804



Industrialization By 1850Industrialization By 1850



Railroads on the ContinentRailroads on the Continent



Sir Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace, 1851

Architecture for the Industrial AgeT he First W orld ¶ s Fair



Housed the International London Exposition, 1851

Sir Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace

Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations



Housed the International London Exposition , 1851

Sir Jose ph Paxton, Crystal Palace

18 acres, 9 months

Largest space ever enclosed at that time



Crystal Palace Interior




Open May 1851-October 1851 28 participating countries




Crystal Palace Interiorw orld ¶ s fairs w ere unique in that the everyday person could experience them firsthand.

Anyone could enter the site and feel a part of something new, feel a part of the w orld

community , feel w hat potential humanity has for doing good in the w orld.



Sir Joseph Paxton Crystal Palace 1851



Railway Stations

Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris, 1837

Painted by Monet

several times

The first rail way station

in Paris



Haussmannization

Baron Haussmann, the French civic planner whose name is associated withthe rebuilding of Paris



Avenue de la Grande Armée , one of

Haussmann's t w elve grand avenues

radiating from the Arc de T riomphe.



The Effects of Industrialization




Adolph von Menzel, The Iron Mill, 1875, o/c, 5x8¶

T he invention of the steam engine

and its application

to manufacturing

in late 18th and

early 19th century resulted in a shift

from individual

pride in

craftsmanship to

the dehumanized division of labor.



J acob Riis, How the the Other Half Lives: Studies

Among Tenements of New York , 1889




J acob Riis, How the the Other Half Lives: Studies Among Tenements of New York ,

1889



J acob Riis, How the the Other Half Lives: Studies Among Tenements of New York , 1889



J acob Riis, How the the Other Half Lives: Studies Among Tenements of New

York , 1889



J acob Riis, How the the Other Half Lives: Studies

Among Tenements of New York , 1889

Th Eff f I d i li i




Lewis Hine, Carolina Cotton Mill , 1908

Child Labor in the Coal MinesChild Labor in the Coal Mines



Child Labor in the Coal MinesChild Labor in the Coal Mines

ChildChild

³³hurriershurriers´́





The Effects of



The Effects of

Industrialization



Industrial StaffordshireIndustrial Staffordshire

The Industrial



ThomasAnan, Close No. 28

Saltmarket , 1868-1877

The notorious slums of 19th century

Glasgow , Scotland

The Industrial

City

Th Eff t f I d t i li ti




T he w ork created by the

new industrialized

methods proved to be

shoddy and in poor design

A Return to Simplicity:



A Return to Sim plicity:

The Arts and Crafts Movement

William Morris, Pink and

Rose Wallpaper Design,

ca. 1890

Gustave Stickley Chair

A t i E l d



Millais,

John Ruskin,

1854

Art in England



T o members of the Arts and

Crafts , the Industrial Revolution

separated humans from their ow n

creativity and individualism; the

w orker w as a cog in the w heel of

progress living in an environment

of shoddy machine-made goods ,

based more on ostentation than

function.

Willi M i



William Morris

1875 Morris and Co.

Pimpernel Wallpaper, 1876



Arts and

CraftsWilliam

Morris

Willi M i



William Morris

Philip Webb and Morris, Red House, Kent,England, 1860



William Morris

Philip Webb and Morris, Red House,

Kent, England, 1860

19c Bourgeoisie:19c Bourgeoisie:



19 Bourgeoisie:

The Industrial Nouveau Riche

19 Bourgeoisie:

The Industrial Nouveau Riche

Arts and Crafts and the Private Press



Arts and Crafts and the Private Press

T he most famous of the private presses

From 1891-98 the press produced

53 books (totaling some 18 ,000

copies)

Troy, Chaucer, Golden

Gustave



Stickley

T he entrance of a building

at Craftsman Farms , the

artist ¶ s community he founded in New Jersey in

1908

World¶s Fairs



Remembered most for the creation of the Eiffel

Tower, the Exposition Universelle de 1889 was

the fourth in Paris.

"Better City, Better Life," representing the

common wish of the whole humankind fora better living in future urban

environments.

An artistic rendition of Expo Performance Center



P aris Exposition,

1889



March, 1888 Sept Dec March, 1889

Paris Exposition , 1889



Paris Exposition , 1889



P aris Exposition, 1889



P aris Exposition,



1889



Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, 1889, wrought iron, 984 ft. high



T ruthful to materials

C ast-Iron

C onstruction

7,300 tons of iron and steel

connected by 2.5 million

rivets

Gustave Eiffel



Gustave Eiffel

Eiffel Tower, 1889

Truyere Bridge, Garabit, France, 1880-84

Technology and



gy

Progress

John and Washington

Roebling, Brook lyn Bridge,

1867-83

1 st steel

suspension

bridge in U.S.

6000¶ long,

the longest in

the world at

this time

Modern Advertising and Poster Design



g g

Posters for Public

Announcement

Advertising replaces

Proclamation



Cheret Toulouse Lautrec

Jules Cheret



Jules Cheret



Jane Avril, 1893

Henri de Toulouse-

Lautrec

1864-1901

Henri de



Toulouse Lautrec, Le Divan Japonais, 1892-3

color lithography poster 31x24´

Toulouse-

Lautrec1864-1901



Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jane Avril, 1899

Henri de



Moulin Rouge - La Goulue. (1891) Poster.

Toulouse-

Lautrec1864-1901

Henri de



Toulouse-

Lautrec1864-1901

Lautrec, Louise Weber, Jane Avril, and Aristide Bruant.



Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1892/1895oil on canvas, 123 x 141 cm (48 7/16 x 55 1/2 in.)

The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett MemorialCollection

The Fine Arts Media:



The Fine Arts Media:

Drawing

Printmaking

PaintingSculpture

The Camera Arts

Architecture

Design

What does a designer do?



industrial

textile

clothing

interior

graphicenvironmental

What does a designer do?



Designer / Craftsperson / Fine Artist

* Craft = one of a kind, utilitarian

* Fine art = one of a kind

* Design = mass production, trend driven

The Great




T he Great

Exhibition

of 1851

London

A

watershed for design

in the mid

century

Decorativeand

industrial

arts was

the focus



Arts, Crafts, and Machines 1860s-1914



Industrial

Revolution =Mass

Production

Many artists rebelled against

d ti



Movement

mass production

William Morris, Pink

and Rose Wallpaper

Design, ca. 1890

Gustave Stickley

Chair



Louis Comfort Tiffany

Lamp Dragonfly Pattern1890s

Glass, leading and bronze

Art Nouveau



France: Le Corbusier

³Machines for Living´

France:



Le Corbusier (1887-1965)

³ machines for living´

Villa Savoy, 1928-

30, Poissy, France.

France:

Le Corbusier



Villa Savoy, 1929

Le Corbusier

(1887-1965)



City for 3 Million project (1922) Le Corbusier (compared with

New York City)



Notre Dame du

Haut, or

Ronchamp, 1955



The Netherlands:De Stijl



De Stijl

Gerrit, Rietveld, The

Schroder House, 1924-25

Compositionsw ith

Red , Blue and

Yellow , 1930 o/c,

20x20

Typeface designed by Vilmos

Huszar

De Stijl (The Style), Holland



j ( y )

Gerrit Rietveld House, The Netherlands, 1924



Gerrit Rietveld House, The Netherlands, 1924



Gerrit Rietveld Red and Blue Chair, 1918

Germany: The Bauhaus



S chool of Art, C raft, and Design in Weimar Germany, 1919

Germany:

The Bauhaus



Walter Gropius, Bauhaus

Workshops, Exterior 1925-26

The Bauhaus

Bau=Building

Haus=House

Walter Gropius (1883-1969)F ounder and director of Bauhaus



Bauhaus 1925-26

Aimed to create a school w hereindustrial methods w ere used not

for destructive w ars but for the

betterment of social conditions

Walter Gropius (1883-1969)



Gropius Office at Bauhaus

p ( )




Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Workshops, Exterior 1925-26

y

T he academy

isolates

Individual genius

cannot function in

society



Poster collaboration

of Bayer, Breuer,

Maholy-Nagy



Bauhaus



Herbert Bayer created a series of

³ universal´ sans

serif typefaces

based on modular

shapes and a

limited number of

letter forms

serif sans serif



Letter forms as a

metaphor for

standardized

mechanized production



Marcks Stolz

Marcel Breuer,Chairs, 1927



Bauhaus Workshop Wing

Bauhaus Professors



Marcel

Breuer,

Chairs, 1927

J oseph Albers,Homage to the

S quare: o/board,

47x47´

P aul Klee, In the

C urrent: S ix

T hresholds, 1929,

o/c, 17x17´

Wasily Kandinsky,

C omposition VIII , 1930

o/c, 55x79´

Lazslo Maholy

Nagy, Light-

SpaceModulator, 1922-

30

Photogram, 192

Bauhaus



Bauhaus Professor Marcel Breuer, Chairs, 1927

Mies Van der Rohe



Barcelona Chair

³ Less is More´

Barcelona

Pavilion Project for a GlassSkyscraper, 1922

Model for Home, 192

Fransworth House

Mies Van der Rohe

(1886-1969)



(1886 1969)

Barcelona Chair

T he last director of

the Bauhaus



Mies Van der Rohe

(1886-1969)



Barcelona Pavilion

(1886 1969)

Mies Van der Rohe

(1886-1969)



( )

Mies Van der Rohe

(1886-1969)



Project for a Glass

Skyscraper, 1922

(1886 1969)

Mies Van der Rohe

(1886-1969)



S tructural steel and reinforced

concrete

Model for Home, 1924

(1886 1969)

Mies Van der Rohe

(1886-1969)



Farnsworth House

(1886 1969)

S ynthesized the technology of the machine age with the purest

principles of functional design



Walter Gro pius, Bauhaus Worksho ps,

Exterior 1925-26

Poster

collaboration of Bayer, Breuer,

Maholy-Nagy

Modern Architecture: Geometry to Live In



S treamlined designs gave form to the Machine

Age by rejecting all historical ornament

F orm follows function



=

Di Stijl³ to create a world of universal

harmony´

Le Corbusier ³ machines for living´

The BauhausS ynthesized the technology of the

machine age with the purest

principles of functional design

+

International Style



Director of Bauhaus Mies van der Rohe



Breaking down boundaries between

crafts and fine art



Bauhaus Professor Marcel Breuer, Chairs, 1927

Bauhaus



Logos and Symbols



Letters and Pictures



Rene Magritte, False Mirror, 1935

William Golding, CBS Symbol, 1950



Other Types of Design



MTV Logos

Swatch Watches



Logo Design



Greek, Winged Victory

190 BCE

Design

Awards



British designer

Samuel Wilkinson

and product design

company Hulger,

have won the Brit

Insurance Design of

the Year 2011 for

their redesign of

the low energy lightbulb



Architecture Award Winner 2011: Open Air Library, KARO Architekten

and Architektur+Netzwerk, Germany



Brit Insurance Product Award 2011:Barclays Cycle Hire, Transport for

London & Serco



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