Design influences, styles and movements

Question 1

When did the art and craft movement take place?

Answer 1

1850-1900

Question 2

What we’re the influences of the art and craft movement?

Answer 2

Reaction to the loss of traditional skills and overuse of ornamentation that resulted from the industrial revolution

Question 3

What were the inspirations of the art and craft movement?

Answer 3

Medieval craft guilds, simplicity, natural forms and the beauty of timber

Question 4

What are the features of the art and craft movement?

Answer 4

• Handmade
• traditional methods such as pegged mortise and tenon joints
• beauty of materials such as grain clearly displayed
• use patterns
  -use natural forms

Question 5

Who are some designers of the art and craft movement?

Answer 5

• William Morris
• Charles voysey
• Richard Norman Shaw

Question 6

When did the art deco movement take place?

Answer 6

1925-1939

Question 7

What were the influences and inspirations of art deco?

Answer 7

• the end of WW1
• aspirational consumers, popularity of travel and growth of mass production
• the discovery of tutankhamens tomb on 1922
• Paris exhibition of 1925
• a range of international styles such as Egyptian temples and aztec motifs

Question 8

What are the features if art deco?

Answer 8

• ziggurat, stepped decorations and building styles
• sunburst motif
• stylised, geometrical form of products from jewellery to furniture
• bold colours as well as black and chrome

Question 9

Who are some of the designers in Arc deco?

Answer 9

• clarice cliff
• Eileen gray
• rené lalique
• Walter Dorwin

Question 10

When did the Bauhaus movement take place?

Answer 10

1919-1933

Question 11

What were the influences and inspirations
Of bauhaus?

Answer 11

• post WW1 idealism, abolition of censorship
  -WW1 industrial methods and materials
• geometrically pure forms

Question 12

What are the features of bauhaus?

Answer 12

• founded by an art school (bauhaus school of design) and eventually closed due to pressure from the nazis
• course covered materials, form, metalwork, furniture design, architecture, graphics and more
• basic principle ‘form follows function’ which rejected natural forms of art nouveau
• embraced mass production to create ‘everyday products for everyday people’ using modern materials such as tubular steel
  -work was criticised and the movement saw few of its designs mass produced

Question 13

Who are some designers of bauhaus?

Answer 13

• Walter gropius
• Marcel breuer
• marianne brandt
• mies van der rohe

Question 14

When did the post-modernism movement memphis take place?

Answer 14

1981-1988

Question 15

What were the influences of the post-modernist movement memphis?

Answer 15

A Milan based collective of designers rebelling against the functionality of modernism
Influenced by art deco, pop art and children’s toys

Question 16

What are the features of the post-modernist movement memphis?

Answer 16

• less is a bore
• playful, bright, colourful, sculptural designs that overlook functionality
• anthropomorphic (human-like) and zoomorphic (animal-like) features
• simplistic, abstract and often random geometric forms
• designed to shock
• used non-traditional materials such as plastic laminate, neon tubes and printed glass

Question 17

Who are some designers from the post-modernist movement memphis?

Answer 17

• ettore sottsass
• michele de lucchi
• martine bedine

Question 18

What is modernism?

Answer 18

A period after WW1, when elaborately decorated design was rejected for functionality

Question 19

What is post-modernism

Answer 19

A late twentieth-century design style that rejected modernism as being boring