Design History Overview
This table lists the major design movements, how Design had influenced or was influenced by the movement and some representative designers.
Year Range | Major Design Movement | Designs Types of the Movement | Key designers in each movement |
1850 - 1914 | Arts and crafts movement | William Morris, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret MacDonald- Mackintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright | |
1860 - 1900 | Aesthetic movement | Arthur Liberty, Arthur Silver, Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |
1880 - 1910 | Art Nouveau | Jules Cheret, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Leonetto Capiello, Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, Alphonse Mucha, Aubrey Beardsley | |
1907 - 1958 | Modernist | ||
1907 - 1935 | Deutscher Werkbund | Peter Behrens, Julius Klinger, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe | |
1909 - 1930 | Futurism | Giacomo Balla, Umberto and Carlo Carra, Edward McKinight Kauffer | |
1916 - 1923 | Dada | Tristan Tzara, Man Ray, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters, Richard Huelsenbeck | |
1917 - 1935 | Constructivism | Vlademir Tatlin, El Lissitzky, Valentina Kulagina, Kasemor Malevich | |
1917 - 1931 | De Stijl | Theo Van Doesburg, Gerrit Rietveld, Bart van der Leck, Piet Mondrian | |
1919 - 1933 | Bauhaus | Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Marianne Brandt, Laxlo Moholy-Nagy | |
1920 - 1980 | International Style | Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand, Philip Johnson, Saul Bass, Hera Roberts, Fred Ward, Florence Knollx | |
1920 - 1939 | Art Deco | Cassandre, William Van Allen, Jean Carlu, Pierre Legrain, Mariano Furtuny, Thea Proctor, Marion Mahony Griffin, Walter Burley Griffin, Walter Jardine | |
1930 - 1960 | Organic Design and Biomorphism | Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Frances Burke, Verner Panton, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto | |
1930 - 1950 | Streamline | Norman Bel Geddes, Raymond Loewy, Eliel Saarinen, Walter von Nessel, Kem Weber, Gilbert Rhode | |
1958 - present | Postmodernist | ||
1958 - 1975 | Pop | Victor Mocosco, Seymour Chwast, Milton Glasser, Eero Aarnio, Joe Colombo, Roy Lichtenstein | |
1968 - 1978 | Radical Design and Anti-Design | Alberto Columbi, Ezio Didone, Jonathan De Pas, Donato D'Urbino, Paolo Lornazzi | |
1970 - present | Eco Design | ||
1965 - present | Postmodern Design | Frank O. Gehry, Phillippe Starck, April Greiman, Michael Graves, Richard Eckersley, Tobor Kalman | |
1981 - 1988 | Memphis | Ettore Sottsass, Martine Bedin, Aldo Cibic, Michele De Lucchi, Matteo Thun, Marco Zanini | |
1984 - present | Digital Design | Michael Place, Vincent Frost, Marc Newson, Rinzen, Joshua Davis, Zaha Hadid, Tord Boontje, Karim Rashid |
Bibliography
Kirsten Guthrie, Visual Communication and Design. 2nd Ed, Nelson Cengage Learning, 2008, pp 139-149page revision: 43, last edited: 10 Apr 2017 05:21