Prof. Jenna Spevack | COMD3504_D061 | SPRING 2023
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
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
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
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
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.
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