P_001_Bauhaus and Art Deco Design

In lieu of doing research, please read and watch the following.   (20 minutes total)

Bauhaus and Art Deco are two movements that happened in the earlier part of the twentieth century. A lot was going on in this time period.  The Industrial Revolution had swept across the country causing the uprise of city centers, manufacturing, factories, steel productions, and railroads (which shipped everything everywhere creating nationwide commerce).   Art had shifted too.   Have a look



Art Deco or Deco, is an influential visual arts design style that first appeared in France just before World War I and began flourishing internationally in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s before its popularity waned after World War II.

Deco is a very dramatic style that emphasizes geometric forms: spheres, polygons, rectangles, trapezoids, zigzags, chevrons, and sunburst motifs. Elements are often arranged in symmetrical patterns. Modern materials, such as aluminum, stainless steel, Bakelite, chrome, and plastics, are frequently used. Stained glass, inlays, and lacquer are also common. Colors tend to be vivid and high contrast



BAUHAUS
The second of these two movements centered around an actual school called the Bauhaus.  The Bauhaus, similar in aesthetic to the Art Deco movement is also characterized by a simplistic, modern, and slightly industrial feel.    It's impact on architecture, typography, graphic design, and furniture design are still highly relevant, even today... almost 100 years later.  It could be said that the mid-century modern building that we are sitting in was in many ways influence by bauhaus as well.




PROJECT 1: Search the internet (Google Images)  for medium to large images depicting "Bauhaus" and "Art Deco" styles, or use images I've uploaded to the slideshare powerpoint (embedded below).  Find one symmetrical image for each art movement, find one asymmetrical image for each movement, for a total of FOUR images. You will recreate two of the four images of your liking using shapes in Illustrator.  As you finish these, you will need to save an Adobe illustrator,  .Ai version and a jpg version to be handed in. Create a folder on your desktop.  Name it "lastname_firstname_week1" then place your illustrator files in the folder, the jpegs you "export" from illustrator, and also the images that you used for inspiration.   You will place the file on the server when the server is created for our classroom.  Until then, please save all files to a thumb drive. 

For this project, you will be using shapes, shape builder, and gradient tools.  You are free to manipulate shapes using the direct seletion tool when necessary.   Please do not "draw" shapes using pen or pencil tools, and please do not put "strokes" around these shapes, unless it is in the original design.  Try and recreate the images just as we did with the Egon Shiele "In Class" assignment. 

If at all possible, please try to make your illustrator files 11x17 (tabloid) with an 1/8th (.125) inch bleed.  I realize that working with other images, sometime the formatting will not fit our exact print sizes.  But, we might want to print these out and place them down in the hallways for your peers and other potential future students to see. 

digital_foundations_P_01_Deco from Thomas Everett Green

HOMEWORK:   After you finish your Deco/Bauhaus Designs,

Please WATCH the following tutorials on the basics of the Pen and Pencil tools. We will do some exercises in class tomorrow using these tools.  If you have Illustrator available to you at your house and you want to play with these tools, by all means.  But, if you don't, we will get practice in class before we begin on the next project.

And Finally,  there is the new Curvature pen tool  (MY FAVORITE!!!) which is super easy to use when drawing curvy lines.