OUGD501 - Draft Essay Structure

Introduction -

Setting up an argument

Paragraph 1 -

Memphis Group: drew inspiration from pop art and art deco to produce post modern design

1.  Article: "Has postmodernist design eaten itself ?"
2. ^ Jump up to: ^a b "Memphis – Product + Furniture Designers (1981–1985)". Design Museum.
3. Jump up ^ Möbel, Memphis
4. Jump up ^ Pellegrin, Bertrand (January 15, 2012). "Collectors give '80s postmodernist design 2nd look". San Francisco Chronicle.
5. Jump up ^ Fox, Imogen (July 4, 2011). "Christian Dior shows first haute couture collection since John Galliano snacking". The Guardian. London.
6. Jump up ^ "Angela Missoni quotes Memphis as a reference for her jacquards". style.com.
7. Jump up ^ Glancey, Jonathan (March 22, 2002). "Love it or loathe it?". The Guardian. London.
8. Sparke, Penny (1988). Italian Design: 1870 to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-23531-7

Constructivism

Structuralism

Post Structuralism

Derrida and Deconstruction

Cubism

Neuism

Futurism

Dadaism

Capitalism


Paragraph 2 - Parody & Pastiche


Paragraph 3 -

Adhere to function or abide towards social conventions and idiosyncrasies?

Modernist principles within graphic design

Metanarratives

Massimo Vignelli
Josef Muller Brockman
Jan Tschichold
Wolfgang Wenigart

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Paragraph 4 - Explore Postmodernism's place within current society

Explore the uses of the grid system within modernist typographic design and the postmodernist ideologies of later rejecting it. Why it was established and why it was important to break free from its reigns.

Modernism, an exhausted practice

Avant Garde Postmodernist Design

Creative freedom, breaking free from the rules and authority of modernism

Stagnant modernist design and the need to move on

Modernist ideologies must be taken into consideration, but rules must be broken in order to create truly innovative design

Decontextualisation



Conclusion

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29th January is the draft deadline.

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