JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM
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Course: Contemporary Designer Practice

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Course title Contemporary Designer Practice
Course code KDT/FU062
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Štěch Adam, Mgr.
Course content
1. Resources of contemporary design: Radical design, Memphis, Alchimia. 2. Resources of contemporary design: Studio furniture, Art et Industrie, Creative Salvage, and new German design. The Droog Group and the revolution of conceptual design in the 1990s, and the emergence of so-called Art Design. 3. New organic design: Marc Newson, Zaha Hadid, Ross Lovegrove. 4. Back to minimalism: Naoto Fukasawa, Jasper Morrison, Super Normal, Apple. 5. Top design at the turn of the millennium: Konstantin Grcic, Ronan a Erwan Bouroullec, James Irvine, and many others 6. Design and marketing: new brands and strategies. 7. Main representatives of the upcoming generation of designers: Sabine Marcelis, Max Lamb, Tomas Alonso, Michael Anastassiades, BIG-GAME, and many others. 8. Design and action: performative and research approaches in contemporary design: Studio Swine, Formafantasma, Forensinc Architecture, Judith Seng, Studio Glithero. The most current tendencies in contemporary design: Neo-postmoderna, Ugly Design. 9. Renaissance of curatorship and journalism about design: exhibitions, biennials, fairs, independent magazines, Instagram. 10. Czech design of the eighties and nineties. 11. Czech Design after 2000

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The cycle of lectures will focus on development of applied art and/or design from 1980 to the present. Students will get acquainted with the basic development tendencies of the 20th century, which fundamentally influenced contemporary design, and at the same time, they will get to know many different facets of contemporary world and domestic creation.
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
colloquium
Recommended literature
  • Fairs, M. Design 21. století. Praha, 2007.
  • Fiell, Charlotte a Peter. The Story of Design. Goodman-Fiell, 2013.
  • Michl, J. Tak nám prý forma sleduje funkci. Sedm úvah o designu vůbec a o chápání funkcionalismu zvlášť. UMPRUM, 2003.
  • Rawsthorn, Alice. Design as an Attitude. Londýn, 2019.
  • Rawsthorn, Alice. Hello World: Where Design Meets Life.. Londýn, 2013.
  • Sparke, Penny. The Genius of Design. Quadrille Publishing, 2010.
  • Sudjic, Deyan. B. jako Bauhaus. Kniha Zlín, 2016.


Study plans that include the course
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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