NM 344
HISTORY OF DESIGN
professor: curt cloninger
email: ccloning at unca dot edu
office: Owen 311 (office hours are online, by appointment)
location: university of north carolina asheville
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intro
syllabus
rough project calendar
attendance and grading policies
artStor login instructions

major assignments
design critique paper [examples: Rifkin * Wolfe]
design & culture paper [examples: Watson * Krawiec * Metcalf]
[common problems with student papers]
constructivism project
deconstruction project

writing resources
the citation machine (warlick)
easyBib
how to write a bibliography

required text
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Sixth Edition) (meggs) [note: you don't need the access code, just the physical book itself]



history of visual communication timeline
a short introduction to graphic design history
medieval helpdesk
William Morris Gallery Collection
images of Red House (morris)
modernism timeline
3D flythrough of Falling Water (wright)
Avant-garde and modernist magazines
USSR posters
Marie Osmond reads Hugo Ball
kurt schwitters audio
Ursonate score (schwitters)
original Bauhaus texts (in pdf form)
RISD Experimental and Foundation Studies
blue note album covers
Paul Rand logos
Saul Bass film titles
Graphic Design Manual (hofmann) [1965]
pdf versions of U&lc
Columba architecture posters (kunz)
On Overcoming Modernism (wild) [1992]
"Form Follows Function" Revisited (cloninger) [2009]
news about Michael Graves' Portland Building
Paris suburb housing estates (kronental)
Espaces d'Abraxas and Picasso's Arenas
Emigre typefaces
Emigre magazine essays
Vaughan Oliver CD covers
Stefan Sagmeister
The Book Cover Archive
Julian House portfolio [stereolab CD covers * mom & dad title sequence * duke of burgundy title sequence]
100 best posters
hillman curtis documentaries

Typography
typeface categories (kunz)
idnetifont database
fontifier
fontographer
Paul Renner wins in the End (gleim)

Printing Technology
history of printing
illumination
woodblock
letterpress
lithography
linotype [hot type]
offset
phototypesetting [cold type]
desktop publishing

Blogs
design observer
AIGA inspiration
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

Books
Graphic Style* (heller/chwast)
Graphic Design: A Concise History* (hollis)
The Look of the Century* (bambini)
The Grammar of Ornament* (jones)
Genius Moves* (heller/illic)