Design Movements Flashcards
Key contexts of Arts and Crafts movement? (1850-1900)
A reaction to the loss of traditional skills and overuse or ornaments due to the industrial revolution
Key inspirations of Arts and Crafts movement?
Medieval craft guilds, simplicity, natural forms and the beauty of timber
Key features of Arts and Crafts?
‘Honest’, handmade, traditional methods such as pegged mortise and tenon joints.
Beauty of materials such as oak and other timbers
Use of patterned, natural forms on tiles, wall papers and textiles
Designers of Arts and Crafts?
William Morris, Charles Voysey, Richard Norman Shaw
Key contexts to Art Deco movement?
The end of the First World War, aspirational consumers, popularity of travel and cultures and growth of mass production
Key inspirations of Art Deco?
Discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922
The Paris Exhibition 1925
Range of international styles and cultures such as Egyptian temples, Aztec motifs and African carvings
Key features of Art Deco?
Ziggurat, stepped decorations and building styles such as the New York sky scrapers (Empire State)
Geometrics
Bold colours
Key Designers of Art Deco?
Clarice Cliff
Eileen Gray
René Lalique
Key contexts to Bauhaus (1919-1933)
Post- First World War idealism, abolition of censorship, arts and crafts views on form and function
First World War industrial methods and materials
Geometrically pure forms, as also influenced Art Deco
Key features of Bauhaus
Founded as an art school but closed due to pressure from nazis
Basic principle of ‘form follows function’
Looks are dictated by the way a product works
Contrasts arts and crafts by using methods of mass production and modern materials such as tubular steel
Designers of Bauhaus
Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Marianne Brandt
Post modernism contextually influences (1981-1988)
A Milan based collective of designers rebelling against the functionality of Modernism
Key features of Post-Modernism
Playful, bold, bright colours that often overlooked functionality
Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic features
Juxtapositions of geometric forms designed to shock
Use of non traditional materials such as plastic laminate, neon tubes and printed glass
Phillipe Starck b.1949
Key details
French designer Post-modern ideas Designer for Alessi Playful ideas Experimental Modern materials and manufacture
Phillipe Starck
Juicy Salif Lemon Squeezer
Aluminium casting Inspired by eating squid in a restaurant Leg angle stops juice running Potentially unstable Oranges don’t fit Doesn’t collect pips
Costs £50 per unit
