Design history is the study of objects of design in their historical and stylistic contexts.
With a broad definition, the contexts of design history include the social, the cultural, the economic, the political, the technical and the aesthetic. DESIGN HISTORY has as its objects of study all designed objects including those of fashion, crafts, interiors, textiles, graphic design, industrial design and product design.
One can find many online resources about design history, as well as design history timelines about specific periods of design on the internet. Therefore I will focus on a video series put together by Open University for their Design in a Nutshell project which includes six videos from Gothic Revival to Postmodernism.
One can find many online resources about design history, as well as design history timelines about specific periods of design on the internet. Therefore I will focus on a video series put together by Open University for their Design in a Nutshell project which includes six videos from Gothic Revival to Postmodernism.
1. Gothic Revival:
2. Arts and Crafts:
3. Bauhaus:
4. Modernism:
5. American Industrial Design:
6. Postmodernism:
After gaining a better understanding of the HISTORY AND STYLES OF DESIGN we can now look deeper into the development and history of Graphic Design in our next article HERE.