Assignment Completion

I completed my assignment on this date, below is the final design.

Title page

Typography timeline

Final design

Absent

I was absent this lesson but I heard that we just worked on our current info-graphic assignments and researched our current designers.

Postmodernism + Modernism

•  There is no metanarrative --> the big story --> post modernism --> modernism

• Modernism --> If there is a metanarrative there is an answer for every question through rationality. Man can create a better world.
         - Rule 1: No ornamentation (reaction to Victiorianism)
         - Central Station: Less is more (reductionism)
         - Bauhaus Era

• Post Modernism --> No single answer to a question. We accept the world as it is. The rules can be broken

• There is fragmentation
  Many different stories
  Uncertain but established
  - No post-modernists accept the world as it is
  - Modernism attacked popular culture
  - Entered a complicitous relationship with the dominant culture rather than holding a superior attitude to it
  - Characteristics such as: fragmentation, impurity of form, deathlessness, indeterminacy, intertexuality, pluralism, eclecticism and a return to the vernacular.
  - Ceases to be the goal. Parody, pastiche and the ironic recycling.
  - Memphsis - Furniture and product design in Italy

Dan Friedman - On legibility and readability

"Legibility, a quality of simpler and clear reading is often in conflict with readability, a quality that promotes interest, pleasure and challenge in reading."

He encouraged his students to make their work both functional and aesthetically unconventional.

Exploration of the spatial intervals between letters, lines and words gave some works by Friedman and his students a deconstructed quality.