Graphic Means explores the history of graphic design production, before the advent of the desktop computer.
Project Link
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/graphicmeans/graphic-means-a-history-of-graphic-design-producti
FLOMM, The Battle for Modern
FLOMM, The Battle for Modern
by: Steve Mehallo, Chelsea Davis, Darcy Nelson, Noam Weiss, Amanda Burnham, Kaylah Hammer, Kevin Harbaugh, Suzanne Leibrick, Rikki Morehouse, David Powers (The Group)
A historical game that recreates the struggle of Modern Art against the Tyranny of Tradition!
Download the Game in the App Store!
“What would a video game look like if developed in 1923 by a bunch of angry modern artists?”
FLOMM WEBSITE
FLOMM BLOG
FLOMM APP
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flomm!-battle-for-modern-1923/id952019729?mt=8
Know Your Design History, 99 Designs
Know Your Design History: The Bauhaus Movement
It would be an understatement to say that the current state of the graphic design industry owes a lot to the Bauhaus movement. With modern design’s intrinsic nature as a combination of art and industry, we owe much to this ragtag German design school that persevered throughout a tough time of social and political upheaval to leave one of the biggest stamps on art, architecture and design in the 20th century.
The Bauhaus School (literally meaning ‘building house’ in German) was founded in 1919 by Walter Groupius in Weimar, then the capital of post WWI Germany. In this era of change and disillusionment, the movement sought to embrace 20th century machine culture in a way that allowed basic necessities like buildings, furniture, and design, to be completed in a utilitarian but affective way.
The school encouraged the embrace of modern technologies in order to succeed in a modern environment. The most basic tenet of the Bauhaus was form follows function.
ARTICLE LINK (Read More)
http://99designs.com/designer-blog/2013/08/15/know-your-design-history-the-bauhaus-movement/
Mid-Century Modern Online Collection
Mid-Century Modern
A great collection of modern works.
MID-CENTURY MODERN
http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/
ARCHIVE LINK
http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/archive#_=_
Wassily Kandinsky In Action
Eames: The Architect and The Painter
Charles & Ray Eames
via: PBS
From 1941 to 1978, this husband-wife powerhouse brought unique talents to their partnership. He was an architect by training; she was a painter and sculptor. Together their work helped shape the second half of the 20th century and remains culturally vital today. Narrated by James Franco, Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the 25th anniversary season finale of American Masters. (PBS)
“Eventually everything connects—people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
