ZEITGEIST
Zeitgeist
simply means an era of a particular time of something or period when something
happened.
In
simple terms I call it a change in something.
Internet terminology
This is
the spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by ideas and
beliefs of the time.
It bases
on different factors for example fashion, photography among others.
How it relates to design.
As
Janiljean says on her ZD blog, “New designs come in and the previous ones go
out making way for the more improvised and fancy ones.”
So basing on what she says,
to me design is like an evolution in time that comes and goes for example in
the images below.
The
first image shows you the evolution of television right from 1928 to 2007. You
can clearly see that there was change in design and structure of televisions in
every period, which implied that the old ones paved way for the new ones.
As for
the second image, it is evolution of writing (graphics). It starts from back
then when the ancient people used clay tablets and sharp pointed sticks to write,
then paper was created through hitting papyrus and a feather and ink to write.
Time went on, a typewriter was invented and would stamp words onto the paper.
As technology grew up, computers were evented to make words easy and fast.
Monitors later were made portable, faster and lastly were the mobile and
android phones that people of this generation use to text and send messages
/information to others.
Hence
looking at both images, I see the spirit of that age and what characteristics
each period comprised of hence the meaning and definition of zeitgeist.
Internet search of relevant results.
1.Web
address; Zavvi blog
Author;
Jade French
Title; Burning
Issues: Creativity – The New Zeitgeist?
2.
Web
address; NESSEQ
Author;
Max
Title;
Zeitgeist and the climate change
3.
Web
address; ValenTEA Party
Author; ValentinaMonte
Title;
Zeitgeist
4.
Web address; Zeitgeist Project
Author; T.S Eliot
Title; The Zeitgeist Memorandum
5.
Web address; Books
Author; Peter Brusilovski, Alfred Kobsa,
Wolfgang Nejdl
Title; The Adaptive Web: Methods and Strategies
of Web Personalization
6.
Web address;
Laura Wong's AP Literature
& Composition Blog
Author; Laura Wong
Title; AP Literary Term: Zeitgeist
7.
Web address; Google official blog
Author; Artem Boytsov
Title; How we came up with year-end Zeitgeist
data
8.
Web address; Vocabulary .com
Author; Vocabulary .com
Title ; Zeitgeist
9.
Web address; Critical Theory
Author; Ocherthulu
Title ; "Zeitgeist"
versus "Ethos" ... What is the difference?
10.
Web address; Wordnik
Author; Wordnik
Title ; Zeitgeist
UTOPIA
My own knowledge
Utopia means the way things are imagined to be like for
example paradise.
In other wards a place one imagines to be free and perfect
for himself/herself with no problems or worries about anything.
Internet
it is an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
How it relates to design
According to Victoria and Albert Museum as seen in the image
above, the massacre of a large number of people in the 1st World War
led to a belief that conditions of human being would be healed by, “New approaches
to art and design more spiritual, more sensual, or more rational.”
So the artists and designers, with architects playing a
leading role had a desire to collaborate and connect art and life in a spirit
way.
During that time, designers took the process further, they
focused on the most basic elements of daily life domestic goods among others
and were reinvented for a new century hence utopia relating to design.
For more details can check out this website. http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/m/modernism/
Internet search of relevant results
.
Author; Victoria and Albert Museum
Title: Modernism: Searching for Utopia
2.
Web address; See sharp Press
Author; Chaz Bufe and Libby Hubbard
Title Design
Your Own Utopia
3.
Web address; Architizer
Author; James Bartolacci
Title ; Modernist Dreams Of Utopian
Architecture
4.
Web address; Open Utopia
Author; Sam Green
Title; Open Utopia
5.
Web address; Utopian project 2010
Author; Athens school of Fine Arts in Rethymno
Crete
Title; Utopia and Nature
6.
Web address; David M. Bell
Author; David Bell
Title; Arts utopian Function
7.
Web address; We make money not art
Author; Christian Gether, Stine Heholt and
Marie Laurberg
Title; Utopia and Contemporary Art
8.
Web address; Anthropology
Author; University of California, Berkeley
Title; Utopia: Art and Power in Modern Times
9.
Web
address; Utopia/Dystopia
Author;
Students in Sarah Archino’s Spring 2012 course,
Title;
Constructivism
10.
Web
address; Utopia and the everyday- Art project blog
Title; Research
- Utopia and dystopia in Literature and Escapism
About my research
I found
my information through deep research on the on the internet and also reading
other blogs I went across. But most importantly I first researched the meaning
of these words so that I understood them and therefore knew what I was looking
for. Then this is when selection of reliable information came in and this was
done through scanning and sometimes reading through some websites that had
information about what I looked for. So if it matched and made sense to me,
then it was selected.
Context
helps you to have an idea or understanding about something and therefore analyse
it properly and get the best results hence getting relevant information instead
of the irrelevant one.
Images from zeitgeist research
Images from utopia research
http://www.kikk.be/2013/files/library/speaker/anouk/anouk1.jpg
