Our VCT brief this term is to create a visual and textual timeline outlining an aspect of the development of the design profession. The subject could literally be anything from technology(how has it bee treated T.V, internet etc.) how typography has evolved, how a particular brand has developed over time, e.g the changing of the apple logo, or how a magazine cover has changed, e.g Vogue, or even an artists work or design movement.
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Alfred Barr, Cubism and Abstract Art, Exhibition catalogue cover, 1936 |
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Charles Jencks, Modern Movements in Architecture, 1985. |
Ian used the example of looking at How the technique of Cut and Paste has changed from 1910-1980. He demonstrated how the technique has changed through time by showing examples throughout the time period and starting with works by Picasso's Cubist Collage 'Still ife Au Bon Marche' 1913 through to punk appropriation with Jamie Reid's 1977 Sex Pistols cover.
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Picasso Cubist Collage Still Life
Au Bon Marche 1913 |
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Hannah Hoch, Cut with a kitchen knife: Dada through the last Weimar beer belly cultural epoch of Germany, 1919. |
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George Grosz and John Heartfield, 1920s |
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Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917. |
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Jamie Reid 1977 |
Ian then set us the task of creating our own timeline with the images from his cut and paste example. The idea was to create a timeline in about 10 mins and think of a way to categorise the images not necessarily historically.
My group arranged the images in the two categories of photographic images and ones that have been made up of materials. Probably not the best way of doing it but that was the point of the exercise to work it all out!
Another group arranged it by the different movements that the cut and paste technique fell into such as cubism and dadaism.
However I think this group was most successful in creating a visual timeline and they simply kept the images in historic order and just played with the form and layout.
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