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)
1930S 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 (40s-early 60s):
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
1960s – 70s:
Design for social needs;
Buckminster Fuller (industrial design)
Victor Papanek (industrial design)
Protest movements
Pop art – Andy Warhol
Counter culture from the 60s
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) -80s-90s-
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 90s
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 60s-70s)
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) (80s till recently)
Hella Jongerius (90s)
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
