1. What is Design?
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2. Etymology & Grammar
• Comes from Italian word disegno: drafting or drawing of
a work; or the idea at the root of a work.
• A noun and a verb.
“Design is to design a design to produce a design.”
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3. According to the OSU
Department of Design
• Design is a purposeful, systematic,
and creative activity.
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4. Fine Art vs. Design
The primary motivation in:
• Art is usually oneself.
• Design is usually others.
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5. Overview of Design
History &
Contributions
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6. The Real Beginnings
• Stone tools created 2 million years B.C.
chopper hand axe scraper needle
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7. Industrial Revolution
• 1765-1880
• A shift from craft labor to mass production; workshops to
factories.
• Mass production and interchangeable parts allowed
design standardization.
• Steam engine.
• Mass production & Mass marketing.
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8. The Steam Engine
• James Watt
• 1765
• England
• Powered by steam: expanding and cooling water within a
cylinder drove a piston up and down.
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10. Mass Production
• Cheap products, mass produced quickly.
• Poor quality.
• Many different styles: classical mythology, Baroque,
Gothic, Romanesque, Renaissance.
• Lots of Ornamentation: machined lathed/band saw parts
were interchangeable.
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11. Steam
Engine?
• Classical façade.
• Excessive Ornamentation
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12. Toilet?
• Reference to classical
mythology “Chimaera,” part
lion.
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13. Telephone?
• 1888 on top
• 1914 on bottom
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14. New Manufacturing
Technologies
• Bent Beechwood
• Thonet, 1859
Chair No. 14
• Thonet, 1860
Rocker
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15. Mass Marketing
• Josiah Wedgewood’s Pottery factory.
• Used old energy sources: horses, moving water; not
steam; 1769.
• First to market to the middle class; pioneer of mass
marketing; earthenware that was affordable, aesthetically
pleasing, could take sudden changes in temperature;
quick to produce.
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16. Singer Sewing
Machines
• 1850- Isaac Merritt Singer designs
first in-line shuttle sewing machine.
• 1855- Singer becomes the world's
largest sewing company. Singer
begins overseas expansion, starting
in Paris, France, making Singer the
world’s first international company.
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17. Installment Payments
• 1856- Edward Clark, working for the Singer
Manufacturing Co., originates the “hire-purchase” plan,
the prototype for all installment selling or time payment
purchases.
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18. World Fairs or
Exhibitions
They provided an International
marketplace, International
competition, and exhibited the
latest advancements in
technology.
• London, 1851
• Paris, 1889
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19. The Road to
Modernism
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20. Changing Aesthetics
• Driven largely by new technologies in manufacturing and
materials.
• Steam bending wood
• Steel
• Glass
• Curvilinear vs. Rectilinear.
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21. Curvilinear vs.
Rectilinear
C. R. Mackintosh French Furniture Company
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22. Curvilinear vs.
Rectilinear
Henery van de Velde Frank Lloyd Wright
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23. Frank Lloyd Wright
• Guggenheim Museum
• New York, 1956
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24. “Form follows
function.”
• Louis Sullivan
• Chicago
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25. Simplification &
Abstraction
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27. Corporate Identity
• Peter Behrens
• AEG - Electrical Products Manufacturer
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28. The Bauhaus
• Founded in 1919 by
Walter Gropius
• Weimar, Dessau, Berlin
• Closed in 1933 due to
the rise of the Nazi Party
in Germany.
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29. Constructivism
Propaganda & Social Messages
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30. Streamlining
Transportation, Future Forms, & Marketing
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31. Evolution of a Chair
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32. Red & Blue Chair
Gerrit Reitveld, 1918
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33. Chair
Marcel Breuer, 1921
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34. Wassily Chair
Marcel Breuer, 1925
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35. Barcelona Chair
Mies van der Rohe, 1929
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37. Lounge Chair Wood
Charles and Ray Eames, 1945
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38. RAR Rocker
Charles and Ray Eames, 1948
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39. Lounge Chair &
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40. Tulip Chair
Eero Saarinen, 1956
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41. Panton Chair
Verner Panton, 1959
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42. That is about all we
have time for.
Without taking another two hours to cover Scandinavien, Minimalism, Post
Modernism, Deconstructivism...
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