This week was History Presentation Week at Design College Australia. Students were given a brief to research an historical or contemporary design issue and deliver a presentation to fellow students and faculty. Topics included various art movements such as Art Nouveau, The Bauhaus, illustrators Cecilie Ellefsen and Mario Hugo and Brisbane designers such as Nicole Cox.
Students are always quite apprehensive about these presentations - let's face it who likes studying history - but once they are into the project they quickly developing an appreciation for it and realize that so much of what took place in the past shapes what happen in design today.
