JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM
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Course: Contemporary Central-European Graphic Design

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Course title Contemporary Central-European Graphic Design
Course code KDT/804
Organizational form of instruction no contact
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 0
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Slejška Michal, doc. ak. mal.
  • Vartecká Anna, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
These informations are in the annotation of the course.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
Are there certain, historically determined specifics of the Central-European cultural tradition? What was (and is) the role of the local intellectual circles? What functions (information, social, ideological, aesthetic ...) are performed by graphic design? In what aspects the demands imposed on the Central-European graphic design of the 20th century differed from the needs required in the rest of the world? How did the major political opinions, or left preferences and pretensions of the state power representatives make felt when establishing the postwar Central-European graphic opinion? How was the political softening of the communist system reflected in poster creation of the 1960's and the 1970's? Has the contemporary graphic design resigned on the domestic tradition? Has it changed its orientation to the commercial visuality of the "West" thanks to digital technologies and changes in social paradigms? These and many other questions are discussed in the thematic block of Contemporary Central-European graphic design, which output is an essay determined by the outlined theoretical discourse.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Exam Colloquium
Recommended literature
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JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM, date of update: 01.12.2025 23:50. Data created for academic year 2025/2026