Final exam essay

Choose one of the following topic to write an essay. Essays should include a premise or thesis statement and four or five paragraphs with specific objects as indicated to illustrate points throughout.

1. Discuss how the form of Modern furniture in Europe in the pre-war period differed from the form of Modern furniture in the post-war period. Use four specific object examples.
2. Explain how Streamlining was applied to objects during the 1920s and 1930s. Explain why designers used Streamlining. What was is meant to accomplish? Provide four specific object examples.
3. Using at 4 examples, explain how the aesthetics of graphic design in the 1950s (Modernism), 1960s (counterculture) and 1980s (postmodernism) related to social changes and to other forms of design in the period
4. Using four examples, discuss how Space Age objects and interiors influenced interiors and objects in the 1960s and 1970s
5. Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown famously embraced the Las Vegas strip, billboards, and roadside architecture. Using four examples, how and why do Postmodern designers incorporated symbolism and layering into their work?
6. What is design activism? Describe how design activism has been expressed in four different movements/styles we have studied in this class. Use specific examples of designers and/or objects.