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Reading response #10
Designersâ in occupation or absent mind made a rejoinder admirably by getting back to the essentials of their craft. Learning can be beneficial from an essential approach to design and the manifesto ‘âFirst Things First 2020 (FTF2020)â is only the most recent example of the âethical designâ ideologuesâ anti-design impulse. The manifestos are a condensed version of a deeply entrenched, pernicious, and elitist ideology.
Fast forward to the 1900s when posters became expression. During the 1940s, graphic design appeared in propaganda posters of the era. âWe Can Do Itâ poster with Rosie the Riveter. Slogans were short, to the point, and added to a graphic that set the tone.
In about ten years, graphic design will become more immersive as the paper will become obsolete. All designs will be digital and have a website feel. Note that the designs will need layers to allow users to click deeper into designs, allowing people to sell products without pitching.
The consumerist culture that was purely concerned with buying and selling things and tried to highlight a Humanist dimension to graphic design theory. It was later updated and republished with a new group of signatories as the First Things First 2000 manifesto.
Ken Garlandâs First Things First manifesto was written on the spur of the moment in 1963. Fourth version of the text is most urgent and powerful to date. Calls for a âreversal of prioritiesâ among graphic designers, argues that less design effort should go into advertising.
It attracted and succeeded, but the alleged hypocrisy of a few signatories angered some readers. The second version was written by Adbusters with input from other interested parties. The response was unprecedented. Pentagramâs Michael Bierut crafted an elaborate visual riposte for I.D. Magazine. Many other magazines reprinted and debated FTF 2000, and translations reached legions of new readers.
In 1964, 22 visual communicators signed manifesto, calling for their skills to be put to worthwhile use and renew their manifesto in expectation that no more decades will pass before it is taken to heart. They propose a mind shift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new meaning.
In 2014, FTFâs 50th anniversary, Cole Peters launched a third version focused on design in the digital realm. First Things First has escaped and outgrown its creator and will continue to mutate. Its progeny, FTFT 2020, the first American version, blasts the reader with a checklist of urgent design goals. It covers the histories and ethics of design, as well as community-based initiatives and non-exploitative social relations.
The manifesto for FTF 2020 has a social justice component. Climate change vulnerability falls on the backs of racially and ethnically marginalized populations. âThere can be no solution to climate change without social justice,â says Namita Dharia, one of FTFâs organizers. First Things Firstâs manifesto, FTF 2020, has attracted over 1,700 supporters. Designers who want a platform for action can follow a link to climatedesigners.org. The organizers present FTF as a âliving document,â and supporters are adding their thoughts in a Google doc.
Louis Kahn was one of the United States’ greatest 20th century architects, known for combining Modernism with the weight and dignity of ancient monuments. I am illustrating one his extraordinary architecture located in Bangladesh which is still operational and unique because of the combination of innovation and simplicity of basic geometric shape.
Proposed research topic can be
“Louis I kahn’s add modernity in Bangladesh architecture and set extraordinary example for modernism.”
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Modernism showed the wonderful time when simple geometric shapes are the basic of design and mostly focus on technology. Interesting fact to be noted from here is technology adds to beauty where using space in architecture where light air can pass for ventilation and in print design the blind spots, color psychology and shapes, the use of typography and simplicity are the key factors.
Mostly, Modernism is characterised by dazzling experimentation, perplexing narrative and poetic form and often contradictory aesthetic and ideological tendencies. The desire to âMake it new!
Simply can be identified by the era of art where new ways of experiment and collective approaches can be seen more than any other time. The result was obvious, coming up with bright, simple ideas like Bauhaus school and alumni student and more practical thought introduced with aesthetic.
Postmodernism is a society net which formed its own life forms. The period when west civilization entered a dark period since 1875 is called a postmodern period. Postmodern societies do not foresee the freedom of mind, they defend local culture; they are formed of civil societies. Postmodernism is a reaction against being modernism global in knowledge, mind and values. It internalizes the aim approach in the realist ideal and has been the aim of society’s values. Postmodern societies corrupts all rules by third learning, they leave all their behaviours.
There are some basic of postmodernism that still make an impact in todayâs society, like photography, body art, graffiti art, and video art. Art is everything and everywhere. With our prior attention, it can be detected what? why? and how is persuaded and what is the reflection of the art.
I have framed word illustration, a great work for Bangladesh In the background of modernism.
Louis Kahn designed the entire Jatiyo Sangsad complex, which includes lawns, lake and residences for the Members of the Parliament. The entire masterpiece is designed in a way to form one or nonâdifferentiable entity connecting the garden and mosque, surrounding the structure and forming a statement on the landscape.
Kahnâs key design philosophy optimizes the use of space while representing Bangladeshi heritage and culture. External lines are deeply recessed by porticoes with huge openings of regular geometric shapes on their exterior, shaping the buildingâs overall visual impact.
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The Pride of Bangladesh
For thousands of year, the most common building materials have been stone, brick and woods. They have been the most charming, ageing beautifully and suggesting a special nobility and strength. Modernist architecture begins in the early 20th century, traditional materials quickly gave way to three quintessential: Concrete, Steel and sheet-Grass. The result has far too many cases appeared brutal, uncaring and alienating. Could modern architecture not learn to work with traditional material while retaining the forms and the spirit of our own times?
This billion dollar question and beautifully answered by one of the greatest of all modernists, the American architect Louis Kahn. The Kahn was born in Russia in 1901 and emigrated with his parents to the United States at three. Kahn was a student at the University of Pennsylvania, but his career truly blossomed in the 1950s after a trip to Rome led him to a new appreciation of the beauty of Roman Architecture., the unique addition to modern time to include an ancient element in his work without losing his innovation and clarity of modernism.
I will draw an illustration thorough one of his great work for Bangladesh In the background of modernism. Construction began in 1961, while Bangladesh was still known as East Pakistan, it was planned to turn Dhaka into a second capital, complete with assembly facilities. The government enlisted the help of South Asian activist and architect Muzharul Islam, who suggested bringing in the worldâs best architects. The government attempted to bring in Alvar Aalto and Le Corbusier, but both were unavailable. Islam then enlisted Kahn, a former Yale professor.Â
During the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, construction was delayed, but it was finished on January 28, 1982. When Louis Kahn died, the project was about three-quarters completed, and it was continued by David Wisdom, who had previously worked for Louis Kahn. Kahn designed the entire Jatiyo Sangsad complex, which includes lawns, lake and residences for the Members of the Parliament. The entire masterpiece is designed in a way to form one or nonâdifferentiable entity connecting the garden and mosque, surrounding the structure and forming a statement on the landscape. Kahnâs key design philosophy optimizes the use of space while representing Bangladeshi heritage and culture. External lines are deeply recessed by porticoes with huge openings of regular geometric shapes on their exterior, shaping the buildingâs overall visual impact.Â
In the architect Louis Kahnâs own words:
âIn the assembly, I have introduced a light-giving element to the interior of the plan. If you see a series of columns, you can say that the choice of columns is a choice in light. The columns are as solids frame the spaces of light. Now think of it, just in reverse and think that the columns are hollow and much bigger and that their walls can themselves give light, then the voids are rooms, and the column is the maker of light and can take on complex shapes and be the supporter of spaces and give light to spaces. I am working to develop the element so much that it becomes a poetic entity that has its beauty outside of its place in the composition. In this way, it becomes analogous to the solid column I mentioned above as a giver of light.â
Understanding the fact of designerâs mind, that has produced a building that, while universal in its sources of forms, aesthetics, and technologies, could be in no other place. These spaces alternate among eight âlight and air courtsâ and a restaurant, as well as entrances to the garden and mosque. According to Robert McCarter, author of Louis I. Kahn, it âis one of the twentieth centuryâs greatest architectural monuments, and is without question Kahnâs magnum opus.â
Indeed, Bangladesh parliament house is a masterpiece for world and operated as an institution to practice democracy and law is something all nation proud of. The architect was not a political person but able to understand his responsibility to make a permanent mark and pay his deep attention. The people of Bangladesh love him and connected to him through this work. He feels and understands the pain of democracy that being felt inside and the oppression going on for over two decades. In the social aspects of his personal life, he was compared to an innocent child for his pure simplicity and he doesnât know how to say no for budget or region.
Bangladesh is summer county, biggest delta of the world and rivers are compared as vein to body and greenery are everywhere. He feels and understands the pain of democracy that being felt inside of the country and the oppression going on over two decades. Kahnâs work successfully reflects the face of the country, the beauty, the green, the simplicity of people through geometric symbol and using natural light space water body everything holds Bangladesh in one stage.Â
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