This week we covered a centure of change and looked at photography, moving image, Japonism, arts and crafts movement, art noveau and the glasgow school amongst others. While these may not be directly linked to IxD - it is always good to look at different aspects of design paiting, illustraton and architecture. The lines and shapes can be transferred to UIs very easily.
This week we looked at the Industrial Revolution, how it affected the world, and everyone with all the different inventions, we began by looking at photography and the leaps and bounds it made in a short period of time.
Mathew Brady (1823-1896) was one of the most well-known American photographer, who captured images of the American Civil War shown in his Washington gallery which were said to capture shocking and gruesome images, that had a far reach, as crowds went to see them. His work teaches us about the shock value of images, and how they can draw people in.
Zoetrope, Thaumatrope, and Phenakistosc were the next big step, as they all took multiple drawings of a moving object and made them come to life.
Zoetrope made in 1833 is a cylinder that rotates and the narrow slits that you view through to the inside illusion of the different drawings that come alive.
Thaumatrope invented in 1825 it is a disk with a different image on both sides and a string connecting it all, that you twirl to create the illusion.
Phenakistosc was invented in 1833 it is a disk with even slits and drawings in between them that when held up to the mirror and spun you will see the illusion.
Cinamathorghy was born when Leland Stanford placed a bet that when a horse ran it had all 4 legs off the ground at one time, to win the bet he hired Eadweard Muybridge who developed 24 cameras to take a photo each perfectly timed one after another that he placed on a disk and projected onto a screen creating the first ever video.
We then moved on to Japonism which greatly inspired the art movement around the world in the 1850s, like The Wave off Kanagawa 1831 by Hokusai Katsushika and Kushi 1786 by Kitagawa Utamaro
