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Topic 3: Design and Technology

Overview: Technological impacts on the context and on design
Technology, information, and visual form have – and have had – a symbiotic relationship with one another. One simple example is the invention of moveable type, which allowed law, information, andknowledge to be stable, shared, and spread. Today's conditions of highly advanced media technology present compelling challenges for the tools designers will use to design, but more importantly, what will be designed for the way people get and use information today and how that information will be used and attained. Design and technology are like horse and carriage or like chicken and egg. Our next readings will purvey a small but extremely relevant and provocative array of ideas and information about technological change and a consideration of its impacts.

Readings for 11.05.07:

Download scan_this_book.pdf

Download Cyber-Neologoliferation.pdf

To be presented by Stephanie and Julie

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Theory I F09 Course Description

  • This course will offer (more or less) a survey representing a spectrum of design theory’s influential texts. These represent the evolving theoretical ideas produced through modernity in varying contexts that have motivated works of graphic design, typography, and book design. The readings beginning in the mid-nineteenth century at the height of the industrial revolution when graphic design as an autonomous field develops and continue into the early 21st century information age. Collectively these texts represent a leap-frogging between “tradition” and “modernity,” finally arriving at post-modernism and the debates and challenges to all previous models.

    As a class we’ll consider these texts as representing the changing values of design in order to inspire and consider our own context in the shaping of our disciplines and as motivation for our work.

    Learning Goals · Learning to read and engage with theoretical writing and theoretical ideas
    · Develop an understanding of theoretical writing
    · Gain understanding of the theoretical concepts that have driven modern design
    · Develop basic thinking skills to generate personal credos and theories
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