HISTORY OF DESSIGN MOVEMENTS

By paola.c
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    Art and Craft Movement

    DESIGNER: Charles Rennie-Makintosh, William Morris, Phillip Webb
    INFO: "...aimed to promote a return to hand-craftsmanship and to assert the creative independence of individual craftspeople."-Design Museum
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    The Aesthetic Movement

    DESIGNERS: Fiona MacCarthy
    INFO: inspired by Japanese Woodcuts
    represented Anglo-oriental style
    "arts for art sake"
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    Art Nouveau

    DESIGNERS: Aubry Beardsley, Henri Toulouse-Loutrec
    INFO: Emphasis was based on creating unity to make natural organic and flowing shapes and forms.
    "...a movement that swept through the decorative arts and architecture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Artists drew inspiration from both organic and geometric forms, evolving elegant designs that united flowing, natural forms with more angular contours."-Art Story
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    Jugendstill

    DESIGNERS:not found
    INFO: wing of art nouveau and german style focusing on german theme and mythology
    black and white images and hand lettering
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    Foundation to Modern Art Movement

    DESIGNERS: DeutscherWurkbund
    INFO: overtaking expressing design
    standardisation in objects
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    Futurism

    DESIGNERS: Umberto Boccioni
    INFO: Futurism developed in interwar Italy as an ideology that celebrated the speed, movement, machinery, and violence of modern times. Blending realism with collage and Cubist abstraction, its visual components include lines of force and dynamism to indicate objects moving through space.
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    Constructivism

    DESIGNERS: Vladimir Tatlin, Aleksander Rodchenko, Antoine Pevsner, and Naum Gabo
    INFO: Russian movement after the revolution. well designed utilitarian objects, accessable to masses.
    emphasized space, construction, and industrial materials.
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    De Stilj (The Style)

    DESIGNER: Rietveld
    INFO: strong simple geometric forms with blocks of colour that define space.
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    Bauhaus

    DESIGNERS: Josef Albers, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Paul Klee.
    INFO: Decorative motifs, industrial machine aesthetics. Closed by the Nazi Party.
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    International Style

    INFO: Named after an exhibiton in America, NY. Global movement of artists who applied functionand pared down geometric forms. initially it was industrial and strong though later on it soften up.
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    Art Deco

    INFO: Application of simple geometirc design and common combinations of bright vibrant colours and solid shapes. Celebrated the rise of technology.
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    Organic Design & Biomorphism

    INFO: Holistic approach which factored in things like human comfort, meant to reflect nature.
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    Streamlining

    INFO: Applying sleek, rounded and smooth finished forms like that of transport ships, trains and aircrafts.
    Makes things looks sleep, modern and appealing.
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    Pop

    INFO: foundations of post- modeernism. Used materials found in everyday life, readily discarded, disposable materials. The Pop movement was mainly aimed at appealing youth.
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    Radical Design & Anti Design

    INFO: Questioned good tasted, mainly by two italian houses. Direct precurser to Post Modernism.
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    Post Modernism

    INFO: questioned the emphasis on logic, simplicity and order. suggesting ambiguity and contradiction have a place.
    Post Modernism was to have an emotion connection with the artist with an end result of being diverse and ever changing.
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    Memphis

    INFO: It was a reaction to international style, it blurred boundaries of design through highly decorative forms, bold colours and patterns. Draws on pop culture and mass produced objects, games, sci fi, and media based productss
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    Digital Design

    DESIGNERS: Blurred the definition of artist, filmmaker, designer, animator, etc.
    INFO: The rise of digital technology formed design to the ability to research, model, test, form and enhance design.