Friday 25 March 2011

Modernism in Design Lecture

Lecture 3 Modernism in design

Anti-historicism (not looking back)

Truth to materialism – no need to disguise things

Form follows function
technology
internationalism

Bauhaus cultury (form follows function)

Ornament is crime Adolf loos (1908)
Basic Knife fork etc.

Bauhaus main site of moderist design

Brought in san serifs

Bauhaus shut down by nazis

Modernist design, things being mass produced, New materials being used

Internationalism

A language of design understandable by any one

Hary beck London underfround map 1933
Simple not accurate  but easy to follow

Herbert vayers sans serif type

1932 times new roamd
fraktur font 1930’s
modern is not neutral is suggest novelty and improvement

FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION

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