Design is one of the most exclusive faculties bestowed upon us by the Almighty. It is a passion for our ‘feel good factor’ adding excellence and efficiency in our activities. Design in Architecture, Sculpture and Painting had been the witness to the development of human civilization. The first impressions of Design recorded in caves of Stone Age were as much forerunners of relief sculpture as of painting adorning the walls of first human shelter.

           CAVE PAINTINGS AS MEANS OF COMMUNICATION

The ancient Roman concept to depict depth in the art forms was visible in the late 15th century, when architects and artists discovered the value and power of three dimensional effects by the study of human anatomy and proportion. Artists in the 19th century brought a new free – brushed style to painting. Towards the end of the 19th century, painters like Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, and Seurat took it to a stage further, using geometric forms which contributed for the development of modern art.

ART WORKS OF VAN GOGH

In parallel, Cubism developed as artists focused on the volume and spaces of structures within a composition by breaking the objects, analyzing, and re-assembling in an abstracted form. Pablo Picasso, the leading proponent of the movement, made his first cubist paintings by depicting nature reduced to three solids: cube, sphere and cone. By the end of 19th century, experimentation with new ideas, new styles, and new materials began in Sculptures. Rodin, the sculptor, showed tremendous output and variety to express new subjects: dreams, ideas, emotions, and studies of form and space in the art of sculpture that had been repeating old ideas influenced by studies of human figure only for last 200 years.

End of 19th century led to the beginning of independency of plastic arts of which architecture, sculpture, and painting were prime examples. It enabled the architecture, sculpture, and painting to influence each other independently through an intellectual and artistic parity and allowed architects and painters (later, photographers, filmmakers, video artists, and other design professionals) to learn from each other’s works. Man started putting his environment in shape with the help of dimensions of beauty and aesthetics by molding of shapes that improved the architecture where we created different forms.

CAVES & TEMPLES

Gradually man learnt to mold his ideas for elegance through proportions to create built forms as an expression.  The further aspirations and technological developments led to the curtain walled skyscrapers with the degree of dynamism. The images on the façade change with the change in the position of sun and objects in the surroundings creating a new variation in façade every time.

 BUILT FORM WITH CURTAIN WALLS

In the process of development, “Design”, extended its arms into various directions like planning, fashion, textiles, graphics, visual communications, commercial and applied arts, interiors, multimedia, jewelry, etc. All these design disciplines mark their presence independently but are continuously and consistently synergizing each other to create newer vision for DESIGN.