FSN 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Design Week, The Great Exhibition, Arts And Crafts Movement
2 Dec 2015
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Introduction: victorian style and the great exhibition of 1851. Best example of victorian style: crystal palace (exhibition hall), london, 1851. First building that used modern building materials and techniques. First example of modern architecture (glass box) Victorian design furniture: heavy, over-sized, over-scale, over-decorated, exuberant, Series of design revivals: principled design, awn pugin: morality in deaign. Architect, believed that design had moral purpose, spiritual effect on the user (moral purpose) Materials represent what the object is made of, symbolism should refer to the use of the object. Plate represents a moral (is a moral object) Seen as closure to nature (the style: henry cole: design and taste. Principle organizer of the great exhibition of 1851. Concerned about the public consumption of design. Believed that the solution = having fine artists make the design (commissioning) Fabric design (on blackaboard) false depiction of nature. Rendering 3d objects on flat surfaces: owen jones: fundamentals of design.
