Design Movements

Design movements 

Arts and crafts

Philosophy:

Fit for purpose

Return to the designer - craftsman as a reaction against industrialisation

Style:

Simplicity

Natural forms and materials

Designers:

William Morris

Ernest Gimson

C.R. Ashbee

Art nouveau

Philosophy:

The languid line

The formulation of new aesthetic values for a new urban lifestyle 

Style:

Curvy whiplash lines and stylised flowers

Languid feminine form

Designers:

Charles Rennie mackintosh

L.C. Tiffany

Antoni Gaudi 

Bauhaus & modernism

Philosophy:

Functionalism 

Reducing form to the most essential elements by removing…