Announcements

Marks for your two projects (historical research and 1st case study) have been posted on two marks pages(above).

Feedback for your case studies:

• use at least 3 references, excluding Wikipedia
• choose Designers that you can find material on
• follow the research template
• integrate the information and PUT IN YOUR OWN WORDS
• refer and analyse actual designs, by referring to examples and images you provide
• go into greater depth on techniques and use of materials, particularly how this applies to your practice
• use the CPUT reference guide template
• hand in on time

Please use the feedback I have given you. The next hand for the 2nd case study has been extended to 20 June.

Post Modernism

Some thoughts:
With Post Modernism, the design playing field has become flat. There are no more hierarchies, no single centres which can claim authority over aesthetics. All becomes equal. This can be confusing, scary, pointless, nihilistic. We can borrow, use, refer to, assimilate, include, appropriate, colonise, take (of course with-in academia the sources have to referenced ..to avoid plagiarism...out side ..to avoid law-suits!!!) any genre, technique, approach, culture etc. It's all systems go with no one system,or any system in place!

The responsibility is up to the individual to make meaning, develop value and become self-governing; developing one's own sense of morality. A spin-off could be a sense of being a one humanity. If I/we have become heirs?heiresses to all cultural heritages, it suggests that I/we then all belong to these heritages. The global-one-family-humanity?

Modernism

Carol, Famke and Monique present Modernism

next week is the final presentation of the Style Movements, Post Modernism

Bauhaus and de Stijl

Charly, Deana and Daniela present Bauhaus and de Stijl

Cezanne, Cubism, Gauguin and Surrealism

http://www.slideshare.net/marksplendid/cezanne-cubism-gauguin-and-fauvism-7670867

Case Study

Case Study Brief
Research and write a case study on:
One local Jewellery Designer
One international Jewellery Designer
One local Designer in any Design field
One international Designer in any Design field

i.e. you will be submitting four individual case studies, according to the above criteria. Each study 3/4 pages long, excluding images (roughly 1500 words)

Submit your projects on your blogs by the following dates:

• 9 May
• 9 June
• 31 August
• 7 October

You will present two of your case studies during your allotted time slots in class.

• Choose designers who interest you, who are influencing/informing your own practice
• Make the research authentic and relevant to you, this attitude will show up in your presentation
• Use as many reliable/valid references as possible
• Include images/videos etc, your over all layout makes an impression!

Use the Case Study Template and Rubric as a guide:


Template for Case Study research

• Brief biography
• Design Philosophy
• principle concerns
• attitude to design
• themes
• Influences
• Innovation/contribution to world of Design
• How did/do they market themselves?
• Use of materials
• Techniques
• What is the relevance of this work to your practice?
• Bibliography: Use the Harvard  template [ go to: CPUT homepage, click on: Library button, go to: Postgraduate Research Support, go to: Guides, Manuals and Templates, look up: Harvard for beginners!]

Rubric

• Authentic language
• Has the researched information been digested and understood? is the learner using their own words?
• Use of Images
• Are the use of images/video/etc informative, appropriate, economical (ie. not too many/too few?)
• Adequate Research and Reference
• Have reliable/valid reference sources been used?
• Is there a bibliography and what state is it in ?!
• Plagiarism is not tolerated!
• Over All Impression
• To what extent has the learner been involved? (effort/enthusiasm/interest/authenticity)

Post impressionism, van gogh, expressionism and surrealism View more presentations from mark splendid