Modern Design

Modern Design surveys the development of modern useful and decorative objects, from the early stages of industrial technology to the present, from the rise of Modernism to its rejection in Post-Modernism, from Tiffany glass and tubular-metal furniture to the iPod and other products of today. Its overall approach focuses on the aesthetics of designed objects and on the designers who created them, but the course also investigates the relationship of design and industrialization, technology, environmental responsibility, individual needs, and the expression of societal values.