Movimentos Artísticos do Início do Século XX

Coimbra, 2022

This project was created in collaboration with Marta Babau, as part of the History of Design subject, during our first year in the Bachelor's Degree program in Design and Multimedia at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra, under the guidance of professor João Bicker.

For this project, students had to design a magazine, a newspaper or a catalogue about one of a few given topics. We decided to develop a catalogue, something we had never done before, and we chose the topic "Art Movements in the Beginning of the 20th Century: Dadaism, Constructivism and De Stijl", considering it was the most suitable subject for a catalogue.

The project was divided into two phases. The first one consisted of research, image collecting and writing of the text, which we did referencing different history books and websites. For the second and final phase of the project, we had to design the catalogue, and it was required that we included one timeline.

Rather than making the timeline one small segment of our work, we decided to extend it throughout the whole catalogue, connecting every page. Our timeline included not just major events in the history of art, but also key moments in pop culture and in World War II, which heavily influenced the art movements the catalogue was about. This timeline became the main trait of our catalogue, and it was what made it stand out.