Project 2 Resources/Ideas/Reading

I'll probably add more on to this later, but here are a few preliminary sources that I had time to browse through for the Dada movement:

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/dada/techniques/typography.shtm

http://www.dada-companion.com/typography/

http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/collection.html
 
The next one is a good resource for many of the movements that we'll be focusing on:
http://citrinitas.com/history_of_viscom/avantgarde.html

Some preliminary ideas:
-Initially I was thinking of making a book, but it seems like that's a popular choice so I think I'll steer away from that.
-I'm going to go to the ReStore this weekend and look around to see what they might have (doors, windows, toilets, sinks, etc) that would be a good Dada-y object on which I could design the manifesto. I really, really like the toilet idea... that could just be because of "Fountain" but I think it would be the sort of shocking, scandalous medium on which they would enjoy seeing their manifesto printed.
-I think I'd either look into getting stick-on vinyl letters printed (for a toilet, for example) or find different methods of transferring prints (for a wooden object like a door). I'm worried the vinyl might be too modern a method to use, but we'll see what happens.

Thoughts on the assigned reading:
I thought this was a helpful way to start the project off. Along with the slideshow of design examples shown in class, it was a good introduction to each of the art movements and a helpful overview of how their beliefs and design tendencies differed from one another. As different as some of them were, however, it's interesting to see that many of them built off of each other and how we owe some of them (particularly Bauhaus and De Stijl, I think) credit for the way that designers today tend to appoach design work. The Dadaists were definitely a little out there as far as design goes, but I understand that they were aiming for shocked reactions and uproar from the traditional artists and designers of the time. Recreating their seemingly random and free style is the challenge! I also loved some of the example works shown in the reading--the "mouse tail" poem and the clock created out of text were my favorites.