Wednesday, March 31, 2010

March 31 Lecture

In todays lecture we went over:

Otto neurath- pictorial langauage the isotype movement

Europeans sought to eliminate future conflicts through modern logic and "pictorial statistics"

Design for information : design systems became a metaphor for design

Ladislav Sutnar structuring text and image as logical information patterns

information graphics

Modernism and the NY School, beginning of wwII modernist flee europe

cast off its neutral stance not have anything to do with facism.

Playful puns, american metaphors. content and meaning

Editorial Design using photography and making it the dominate tool in editorial design.

business, manipulation

Bell Labs combined mathematical theories and engineering principles to set the stage for digital computers.

Universal communication.swiss design all aspect of communication of design.

School at ULM developed a curriculum, goals similar to bauhaus. swiss grid.

Multilingual formats of signs and symbols


We also watched the movie Helvetica for most of the class and made me realize how much the typeface is used in todays industry. We also learned alot about the NY School and how symbols and signs are used for communication for international places. We also went over american design and i enjoyed many of the posters. Again photography was used in many of the posters.


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