Design and social meaning of world maps appeared between the 1930s and the 1950s in the US

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24603013
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Design science
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: Ihara Hisayasu 九州大学, 芸術工学研究科(研究院), 教授 (20193633)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 地図デザイン / 航空時代 / アメリカ / 情報デザイン / デザイン史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study, as a historical study on information design, investigated the design and social meaning of world maps appeared between the 1930s and the 1950s in the US, including the works of Richard Edes Harrison, Erwin Raisz, Norman Bel Geddes, Buckminster Fuller, and Herbert Bayer.
By comparative study, two common characteristics of the designs were found as follows: the emphasis of any particular‘point of view’by using perspective drawing methods and elaborating‘realistic representation’by using three dimentional relief or physiographic drawing. Also the study pointed out that there was commonly awareness of so-called‘Air age’in even in Herbert Bayer’s famous atlas “World geo-graphic atlas”

Free Research Field

デザイン学