Chapter 13 resources, links

Resources

Habitat
http://www.habitat.net/pws/landing.html

Design Museum information about individual designers
http://designmuseum.org/design/charles-ray-eames
http://designmuseum.org/design/saul-bass

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Design 1950-75
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dsgn3/hd_dsgn3.htm

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Architecture and Design collection
http://www.moma.org/explore/collection/architecturedesign

AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Medalists:
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalists

Herb Lubalin
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-herblubalin

Seymour Chwast
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-seymourchwast

Milton Glaser
http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/mg_index.html

Pictograms from various Olympic games
http://olympic-museum.de/pictograms/Picto1964.htm

Symbol Signs, AIGA (U.S. Department of Transportation Symbols)
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/symbol-signs

Marimekko
http://www.marimekko.com/eng

Chapter 12 related links

Resources

Design Museum information about individual designers
http://designmuseum.org/design/charles-ray-eames

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Design 1950-75
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dsgn3/hd_dsgn3.htm

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Architecture and Design collection
http://www.moma.org/explore/collection/architecturedesign

Cars that Changed the Automobile Industry A&E (2006), DVD

Automobile in American Life and Society, 1950s
http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Design/Gartman/D_Overview/D_Overview4.htm

Cadillacs in the 1950s
http://100megsfree4.com/cadillac/cad1950/cad50s.htm

General Motors Archive Images
http://www.gmphotostore.com/

Official General Motors Motorama film, 1961
http://www.archive.org/details/TouchofM1961

General Motors Motorama, 1954
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRmlDhaiYJc&feature=channel

Harley Earl – GM Designer Extraordinaire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYY9GUrrkds&feature=channel

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Christian Dior
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dior/hd_dior.htm
Cristobel Balenciaga
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bale/hd_bale.htm

The Golden Age of Couture: Parisand London1947-1957, exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2007-2008
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1486_couture/index.php

David Halberstam’s The Fifties. Volume 2: Selling the American Way, A&E Home Video (1997), VHS

Suburbinization of America: The Rise of Patio Culture
http://www.patioculture.net/paper.html

Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html

More week 1 & 2 links & resources

De Stijl journal digital issues
http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/De_Stijl/index.htm


Schröder House museum and online tour
http://www.rietveldschroderhuis.nl/

The Bauhaus Archive
http://www.bauhaus.de/index+M52087573ab0.html

Bauhaus exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009-2010
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/303

Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th Century, Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
(2003), DVD (50 min.)

Design Library at the Design Museum, London
http://designmuseum.org/design


The New Typography, exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009-2010
http://moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1015

London Transport Museum
http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/index.html

David Raizman book - chapter 11 links & resources

Resources

Design Museum information about individual designers
http://designmuseum.org/design/charles-ray-eames

Victoria & Albert Museum, London
http://www.vam.ac.uk/

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Design 1950-75
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dsgn3/hd_dsgn3.htm

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Architecture and Design collection
http://www.moma.org/explore/collection/architecture_design

AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Medalists
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalists

Cold War Modern, exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2008-2009
http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/cold-war-modern/

Tupperware! American Experience (2004), DVD (65 min.) PBS Home Video
Helvetica, Plexifilm (2007), DVD (80 min.)
Ergonomics
http://designmuseum.org/design/page75806

Richard Avedon Foundation
http://www.richardavedon.com/

Saab Museum
http://www.saabmuseum.com/92/index.html

Two films about the 1951 Festival of Britain
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Britain+South+Bank+Exhibition%22

History of Vespa Scooters
http://www.vespausa.com/about.php

Classic Vespa ads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0BYcaObBRE

Paul Rand
http://www.paul-rand.com/

David Raizman book - chapter 10 links & resources

Resources

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Architecture and Design Collection
http://www.moma.org/explore/collection/architecture_design

Art Deco, BBCW Production, Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (2000), DVD

Streamliners: America’s Lost Trains, PBS Home Video (2001), DVD
Arrow Shirt advertisements from the New York Public Library’s digital collection
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?keyword=arrow+shirts

Raymond Loewy
http://www.raymondloewy.com/


Prelinger Archives, 1939 New York World’s Fair films

http://www.archive.org/details/middleton_family_worlds_fair_1939

http://www.archive.org/browse.php?field=subject&mediatype=movies&collection=prelinger

To New Horizons (General Motors "Futurama" exhibit, 1939 World's Fair, NYC)
http://www.archive.org/details/ToNewHor1940



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74cO9X4NMb4

Week one questions for those not yet enrolled

ADD STUDENTS:

POST THESE ANSWERS TO THE WEEK 1 AREA SET ASIDE WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN FORMALLY ADDED TO THE CLASS

DUE SUNDAY MIDNIGHT 6/12/11


1) What was the main idea behind the Bauhaus?

A) to make utilitarian products for the masses that would be well designed and able to be mass produced?

B) to make a comment about world war one and 'common sense'

C) to cater only to the moneyed elite who could appreciate well-made things?


2) Art Deco was a design sensibility that was aimed at

A) A mass market and was very pro-revolution

B) Appealing to the values of the rich through images of modern luxury

C) Obsessed with nature, and tried to emulate natural forms like leaves, insects etc

3) The Dadaists were:

A) a group who were very much into common-sense, easy to understand art for the masses

B) A pro-war movement who used abstraction to champion machines

C) A deeply anti-war group of artists who used poetry, performance and painting and print to express
deep disgust with world war one and the values that had led to it.

4) The Monument to the Third International was to be a massive tower and was designed by

A) El Lissitzky

B) Walter Gropius

C) Vladimir Tatlin


5) Find an image online of an example of either constructivism, Art Deco or Bauhaus design and write one paragraph about it. Include the artist' name, date of production and what makes it a good example of the art/design movement it is from.