Overview
For this week’s reading and discussion be sure to review the section on Authorship & the Social Responsibility Movement of the New Millennium in the Week 12 Agenda.
Let’s take a look at Rick Poynor’s 2021 Eye … Read More
Category: Assignments (Page 1 of 2)
Overview
You will be reading and annotating the article “80s Design is Alive, Well, and Living in 2019” by Nadja Sayej, published in PRINT, March 6, 2019
Note the terms/styles: vaporwave, glitch, cyberpunk, zine sensibilities, … Read More
Overview: Stereotype in Media
Racial, ethnic, and gender stereotypes have a long history in advertising media, marketing, and visual communications.
Select a historical 19th or 20th-century print or TV advertisement that uses obvious and/or documented racial, ethnic, or gender stereotypes to … Read More
Overview
“Rhetoric is the ‘technique of using the means of expression to persuade’. The hallmark of all rhetoric is that it involves at least two levels of language, the proper or denoted and the figurative or connoted.”
Aesthetics of Photography
You will be reading … Read More
Overview
Our next reading assignment is an introduction to semiotics and models of communication. These two topics directly relate to how we understand communication design from a theoretical perspective.
… Read More…what is semiotics, and why is it important? Semiotics is defined as the theory of signs.
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Read and annotate Steven Heller’s “Underground Mainstream” in Design Observer using our Hypothesis group. In this text, we will look at Steven Heller’s critique of the complex relationship between “the mainstream” and “the underground.”
Your response to the prompt should be … Read More
Overview
Select a design or design object created after 1971 in which the influence of the theories and historical lineages that we’ve studied so far can be seen. Identify the creator and examine the ways in which they were responding, directly or indirectly, to concepts … Read More
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The Research Project & Presentation is designed to facilitate independent research in contemporary design and design theory. Your goal will be to consider the ideas and theories we discuss in this course and the contexts in which they emerged. Then compare those with your … Read More
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You will be reading and annotating three texts written by Karl Gerstner, Joseph Muller-Brockman, and Margaret Rhodes. The focus of these texts is the evolution of the International Style/Swiss Typography from the New Typography movement and the Bauhaus.
Read Karl Gerstner, Designing Programmes pg55-61… Read More
Overview
For our next reading assignment, we will be reading and annotating two texts written by architect-designer-artists affiliated with the Bauhaus. And one contemporary essay about Bauhaus designers.
- Madeleine Morley; Master László Moholy-Nagy Saw Photoshop Coming, 90 Years Ahead of Time (2019), AIGA Eye on
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