The research paper is an opportunity for you to find a subject that interests you and that you are willing to research in detail.
TOPIC- Select one of the three: 1) a designed object/product 2) a designer 3) a design firm/collective – from anytime in the 20th Century (1900 to 2000). For ideas check the list posted on iLearn.
CONTENT- Write an original 5-page research paper in which you discuss the significance of your topic, as you see it, in the larger historical context. More specifically: what is the importance or impact of this designer/design firm/design on the history of design more broadly speaking?
LENGTH – 5 to 6 pages long
FONT SIZE- Papers should be written in a font of maximum 12 points, with double spacing.
IMAGES – Please include images, but keep these separate from text. – maximum one full page worth of images.
BIBLIOGRAPHY – Make sure to add bibliography. Add citations and references as needed.
STYLE – MLA

EARLY 20TH CENTURY (1900-1920):

Henry Ford

Albert Kahn (architecture)

LeRoy Winbush (graphic design)

Early modernism:

Rene Herbst (industrial design/furniture) early modernism

Eileen Gray (architect and furniture designer and a pioneer of modernism)

Le Corbusier

ART DECO:

Renee Lalique

Cassandre (Graphic designer)

Jean Puiforcat

Raoul Dufy

Reuben Haley

AVANT GARDE MOVEMENTS (EARLY 20TH CENTURY):

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (Futurism)

Fortunato Depero (Futurism)

Marcel Duchamp (Dada)

Tristan Tzara

Gerrit Rietveld (De Stijl)

Theo van Doesburgh (De Stijl)

Wassily Kandiskly (abstact art)

El Lizzitsky (Russian constructivism)

Kasimir Malevich(Suprematism)

Alexandr Rodschensko (Russian constructivism)

Vladimir Tatlin (Russian constructivism)

BAUHAUS:

Walter Gropius

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Marcel Breuer

Marianne Brandt

Gunta Stolzl

Anni Albers

Herbert Bayer

Mies Van Der Rohe

Jan Tschichold (the new tyopography)

1930’S US – EARLY INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Designers/stylists:

Harley Earl (GM)

Kem Weber

Raymond Lowey

Norman Bel Geddes

Walter Dorwin Teague

Henry Dreyfuss

Russel Wright

Manufacturers:

Homer Laughlin China Company (ceramics)

General Motors

MODERNISM (40’s-early 60’s):

Earl Tupper

Harry Bertoia

Isamu Noguchi (Japan/US)

Charles and Ray Eames

George Nelson

Dieter Rams (industrial design)

Advertisment:

M.F. Agha (Russin bornTurkish designer, art director, and pioneer of modern American publishing.)

Alexey Brodovitch (photographer in advertising)

Graphic design:

Thomas Miller

Milton Glaser

Paul Rand

Saul Bass

Alvin Lustig

Herbert Bayer

International Typographic Style (Swiss Graphic Design)

Helvetica

Max Bill

Adrian Frutiger

Armin Hoffmann

Early Infographics

Cranbrook Academy Design School

Black Mountain College

Design for social needs:

The ULM School

Tomas Maldonado

Otl Aicher

Gui Bonsiepe

Bruno Munari (graphic design)

Furniture:

Herman Miller

Knoll

Architecture:

International Style in architecture – Mies van der Rohe

Jean Prouve (architect and furniture designer)

Richard Neutra (Architecture)

Frank Lloyd Wright (architecture)

Le Corbusier (architecture)

Louis Kahn

1960’s – 70’s:

Design for social needs;

Buckminster Fuller (industrial design)

Victor Papanek (industrial design)

Protest movements

Pop art – Andy Warhol

Counter culture from the 60’s

Cuban poster Art Eduardo Muñoz, Sevrando Cabrera Moreno, Antonio Reboiro, Luis Vega de Castro, Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, Umberto Peña

Psychedelic poster art: Victor Moscoso, Mouse & Kelley, Family Dog Studios, etc. OSPAAAL;

Unimark International

Massimo Vignelli

Anti design – Italy –

Gaetano Pesce

Archigram

Archizoom

Super-studio (architecture)

Verner Panton (industrial and interior design)

Achille Castiglioni (industrial design)

Joe Colombo (industrial design)

George Nakashima (Japanese American)

Milton Glaser

Materials: History of plastics including Bakelite

Graphic Design:

Paula Scher

Pentagram

Verner Panton

Pin Push studio

Brutalism (Architecture)

POSTMODERNISM (end of modernism) -80’s-90’s-

Michael Graves

Philip Johnson

Anti-design movements

Memphis group – radical design (industrial design)

Ettore Sotsass (industrial design)

Andrea Branzi (industrial design)

Shiro Kuramata (industrial design)

Apple Macintosh (industrial design)

José Leonilson (Brazil art)

Keith Harring (graphic design/art)

Felix Gonzalez Torres (art) Cuban-born American visual artist.

DESIGN IN THE 90’s

Droog Design (industrial design)

Hella Jongerius (industrial design)

Eindhoven Design Academy (industrial design)

Tibor Kalman

Benetton Colors, M & Co.

Robert Stern

Philip Stark (industrial design)

Mark Newson (industrial design)

Ron Arad (industrial design)

Garouse & Bonetti

Campana brothers (Brazil industrial design)

Alexander Mcqueen (fashion)

Deconstructivism; Peter Eisenman; Rem Koolhas (architecture)

early computer aided design

Jean Nouvel;

Jasper Morrison.

The PC; The World Wide Web;

PC; Apple; Computer aided design (CAD). (industrial design)

MIT Media Lab; John Maeda

Zaha Hadid

Frank Ghery

Francis Bitonti

Nendo (industrial design)

Dirk Vander Kooij

Front Design (industrial design)

Studio Libertiny

Mathias Bengtsson;

Iris van Herpen;

Joris Laarman

Thomas Heatherwick

FEMALE DESIGNERS:

Eileen Gray (architect and furniture designer and a pioneer of modernism)

Charlotte Perriand France – designer furniture and interiors. Worked with Le Corbusier and Jean Prouve.

Margarete Schutte Lihotzky (ealry 20th century kitchen design)

Marianne Brandt (Bauhaus-worked in metal)

Gunta Stolzl (Bauhaus-worked with textiles)

Anni Albers (Bauhaus – color theory and textiles)

Eva Zeisel USA (industrial design and ceramics)

Florence Knoll (furniture)

Ray Eames (furniture, industrial design, architecure)

Esther Heath USA (ceramics in California)

Elsa Schiaparelli (fashion)

Coco Chanel (fashion)

Diane von Furstenberg (fashion)

Mary Quant (fashion 60’s-70’s)

Lucienne Day (textile)

Sonia Delaunay (textile, fashion, and set design)

Paula Scher (graphic design)

Margaret Calvert (graphic design)

Susan Kare (graphic designer – early interphase design)

Zaha Hadid (architecture and furniture) (80’s till recently)

Hella Jongerius (90’s)

Lella Vignelli (graphic)

Lina Bobardi (arch)

Maija Isola (textile – Marimekko)

Dorothy Liebes (Textile)

Emma Amos (textile – feminist) https://www.nga.gov/blog/emma-amos.html

BLACK AMERICAN DESIGNERS:

W.E.B. Du Bois

One of Chicago’s leading black artists and designers in the 1920s and ’30s, Charles Clarence Dawson