Futurism is an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age. It was about looking to the future and forgetting the past. Like Bauhaus it was about angular shapes combined with curved edges. The shapes used were extravagant and unrealistic but the colours were simple and plain and patterns were nonexistent. I feel that by looking at futurism and bauhaus it will give me ideas and themes to design my set and location for my robot. As my robot is a robot butler/maid I feel this will work well together.

Bauhaus style and Movement!

Bauhaus was a design school that emerged in Germany in 1919. Bauhaus designers and their students broke from tradition and developed a very modernist style. Their primary intention was to integrate art, technology and craftsmanship by ignoring precedent and generating a new design philosophy. The innovative ideas ranged from architecture to furniture design to typography. They believed that design of any sort ought to be considered a high art as does painting or sculpture.

Futurism and Bauhaus!!!

Futurism

noun

1.

a style of the fine arts developed originally by a group of Italian artists about 1910in which forms derived chiefly from cubism were used torepresent rapid movement and dynamic motion.

2.

often initial capital letter a style of art, literature, music,etc., and a theory of art and life in which violence, power,speed, mechanization or machines, and hostility to the pastor to traditional forms of expression were advocated or portrayed.

Bauhaus

Bauhaus was a design school that emerged in Germany in 1919. Bauhaus designers and their students broke from traditional and developed a very modernist style.

After deciding that I would create my robot as a servant for my one minute slapstick comedy sketch I looked at different designs of existing examples. One of the biggest influences was the Jetsons. It is a cartoon family called the Jetsons who live in the year 2062. It was created by Hanna-Barabera who also created the Flintstones and had a similar storyline . It was First aired in 1962 and tells the story of an American family in a Futuristic Utopia filled with Robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms and time saving inventions.

From initial research into robots and the design of robots I really liked the idea of a robot servant. The first robots that were designed were initially created to ease the workload of the everyday man. They were supposed to make are lives easier, they would work for free, work all hours of the day and you don't have to feel sorry for them as they are only robots.