These Six Adorable Animations Are Like Cheatsheets For Design History


Open Culture has put together a series of short videos that teach the history of six different schools of design. They’re fun, animated ways to learn a little bit about movements from the late 19th century’s Gothic revival to Postmodernism, and everything in between.

Here they are:

Arts and Crafts:

Bauhaus:

Modernism:

American Industrial Design:

Postmodernism:

It’s not even lunchtime and you just gained a broad base of knowledge about some vast, important genres of design. [OpenCulture via LaughingSquid]