Module 4 · Someone Else’s Brand: City of Milwaukee · Design History checkpoint
Design History: Sign Up and Scope
Objectives
- H.1 Describe the major movements, designers and visual language of one period of design history, with citations. (Course Competency 1; Understand)
This assignment measures Module Objective H.1, which supports Course Competency 1.
Overview
Research one period of graphic design history, become the class expert on it, and teach it to your peers in a recorded presentation designed in the visual language of the period. Someone should be able to guess the decade before they read a word. Work alone or in a group of up to three.
Instructions
The AI rule for this project. Design History is the one project in this course where AI may design. You use Gemini with your Maricopa account for research and to build the presentation, in Gemini Notebook or by describing the presentation to Gemini and having it build it in Gemini Canvas (vibe coding). You must confirm facts in library databases and reflect on what the AI got right and wrong. Historical artwork in the presentation is always real and sourced, never AI-generated.
| Group | Years | Research hint |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1895 to 1919 | Look at what was happening in Vienna and Glasgow, not only Paris. |
| 2 | 1919 to 1933 | One school changed everything. Look at Russia at the same time. |
| 3 | 1933 to 1945 | Follow where designers went when political regimes forced them out of Europe. |
| 4 | 1945 to 1960 | Look at American corporate culture and at Switzerland. |
| 5 | 1960 to 1976 | Look at protest movements on both sides of the Atlantic, and at Japan. |
| 6 | 1976 to 1989 | Music culture drove design. Notice what the personal computer began to change. |
| 7 | 1989 to 2015 | Look at Dutch type designers, and two California magazines that broke the rules of layout. |
Sign up in Canvas: People, the Design History tab, then join a group. In the text box, name your period and list three movements or designers you expect to cover.
AI use
No AI use for the sign-up. Log “No AI used.” Record every use in your AI-use log. Gemini is used only with your Maricopa account.
How it is scored
| Criterion | Objective | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Group and period confirmed | H.1 | 3 |
| Three movements or designers named as scope | H.1 | 2 |
| Total | 5 | |
Due
Due in Canvas: Thursday, March 11, 12:00 p.m. Arizona time
Hard close: Friday, March 12, 12:00 p.m. Arizona time. Work submitted after the due time and before the hard close loses 10 percent. Nothing is accepted after the hard close.