OK this is a bit delayed but it’ll be worth it.
Design history is a class which we did sort of on the side, we had thees classes while doing our form project and a bit afterwards, mostly it consisted of looking at slideshows.
Now when I say slideshows, I mean slideshows. To grasp the full extend of slideshowness please listen carefull to this video, where the sound is clearly captured that was made everytime a slide was changed – old school.
The first thing I noticed as I entered the classroom on our very first lesson was esoteric music playing in the background. This was also captured on film – enjoy.
We basically looked at a lot of pictures of old things, some of which were design related and I spent a lot of time playing “Eve Online” on my MacBook Pro to pass the time, oh and I was actually updating this blog too.
We also got assignments from time to time, which looked like this:
note the extreme low readability due to them being done by hand(!)
In the end we did learn a bit about other famous designers and artists and we also made a workbook: Designhistory_workbook
Because i ditched the class before christmas to do other things I had to do two extra assignments too: