Design History

All the movements and schools

Luca Perlini · · 1 min read

The movements, schools and institutions that shaped twentieth-century design history, in alphabetical order.

  • Aesthetic Movement
  • Agitprop
  • Art Deco
  • Art Nouveau
  • Arts and Crafts
  • Avant-garde
  • Bauhaus
  • Biomorphism
  • Compasso d'Oro
  • Constructivism
  • Corporate identity
  • Craft Revival
  • Cranbrook Academy of Art
  • Darmstädter Künstlerkolonie (Darmstadt Artists' Colony)
  • Moral design
  • De Stijl
  • Deconstructivism
  • Deutscher Werkbund
  • Dresdner Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst
  • École de Nancy
  • Functionalism
  • Futurism
  • Glasgow School
  • Global Tools
  • Good Design
  • Green design
  • High-tech
  • Institute of Design, Chicago
  • International Style
  • Jugendstil
  • Kitsch
  • Modern Movement
  • Moderne
  • Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  • Novecento
  • Organic design
  • Pop design
  • Post-industrial design
  • Postmodernism
  • Radical design
  • Rationalism
  • Royal College of Art
  • Roycrofters
  • Vienna Secession
  • Semiotics
  • Standardisation
  • Streamlining
  • Surrealism
  • Swiss School
  • Total design
  • Utility Furniture
  • Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk (Munich)
  • Victoria & Albert Museum

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