The article deals with a historical aspect of methodical approaches to creative tasks in design-education. The article examines methodological peculiarities of General Arts teaching in BAUHOUSE and VHUTEMAS and modern experieance of creative tasks in the educational process in Ulyanovsk State University as part of a programme «Drawing». Research of methodical experience of design-education formation has allowed to reveal reorientation of art specificity of designers’ education process. It is directly connected with specificity of professional artistic and objective creativity of designers. The reference to historical and pedagogical experience in design education I.Itten's and K.Istomin's has made possible the importance of creative task application in educational process at a modern stage of design education development.